From BBC:
Childcare costs in England, Wales and Scotland are continuing to rise, a survey by the Daycare Trust suggests. The trust found parents in England paid an average of £4,576 a year for 25 hours of nursery-based childcare a week for a child under two years of age. Parents in Scotland spent an average of £4,368 and Welsh parents spent £4,056.
The Daycare Trust is now calling for an election commitment from politicians from all parties to make a greater investment in childcare...
I vaguely remembered having outed the Daycare Trust as a fakecharity, so I searched my own blog and found this post, showing they'd said more or less exactly the same thing a year ago, and that I'd said more or less everything that I would have said in response to today's article, so that's saved me the bother
Interestingly, last year the Davcare Trust's chosen statistic was that 50 hours of daycare per week would cost over £8,000, but "Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said the survey was based on parents requiring 50 hours of childcare all year round for under-fives, which was 'more than most parents take up or want'." It's good to see that this year they are using a more realistic figure like 25 hours per week.
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6 comments:
According to my annual survey this year, coffee costs are continuing to rise. I pay an average of £155 a year for coffee this year, compared with £138 last year.
Clearly there should be an election commitment from politicians from all parties to make a greater investment in coffee.
Well, it's no more absurd, is it?
AC, no it isn't. But is there a fakecharity for this?
I am tempted to answer, "Kraft", but that would be too unkind to Irene Rosenfeld.
I'm sure that someone with time on their hands could persuade the govt to hand over a few readies to the "Coffee Trust, a charity dedicated to helping third world producers of coffee get a fair deal"
AC, that's too obscure.
B, that's sort of the opposite of what AC wants. But it would be fun to have a UK fakecharity campaigning against 'Coffee poverty' in the UK while the FairTrade campaigners argue for higher coffee prices to subsidise the African landowners.
"B, that's sort of the opposite of what AC wants"
Well, not really - the producers will be getting more, the consumers will be paying less and the UK gov't will be making up the difference. It's just that you wouldn't want to shout about parts 2 & 3.
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