Originally Posted by
bunyip
The phone-in will be at 1215 on another Radio 4 programme, Call You and Yours.
The Woman's Hour piece was more about the wider travails of working wimmin. (The show does seem to have a very narrow demographic.) At least we are now only partly to blame, but we're still obviously cashing in on these poor, helpless mums who don’t appear to have any choice about having children, who are clearly such a benefit to society that everyone else should be paying for them. :p
One scary statistic from the show: the proportion of nurseries who are running at a loss or break-even is now 75%. That has risen very rapidly from the 50% when the 30 hour scheme was launched (figures taken from PLA research.) I found the 50% figure frightening enough at the time, but 75%........!!!!!!