Give working parents help with childcare and commuting costs, UK thinktank says

Labour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its promise of cutting child poverty, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has argued. The government’s manifesto promised an “ambitious strategy” on child poverty, and ministers have said they will publish a 10-year plan in the spring. A report from the Resolution Foundation, titled Working Poverty Out, showed the last Labour government lifted 600,000 children out of poverty, helped by rising employment among single parents. But it argues that the challenge facing today’s government is different, because 70% of families in poverty now have

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