VIDEO: Rising Childcare Costs Prevent Parents From Working

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Watch the video above to hear Ellen Broome from the Family and Childcare Trust comment on these shocking statistics and explain why spiraling childcare costs are pricing many parents out of their jobs.

Below, hear stay-at-home mum Kirsty Baldock discuss why she considered returning to work but decided it wasn't worth it, as paying for childcare for her daughter would use up almost all of her earnings.

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