Working parents suffer professionally due to childcare issues during pandemic, poll finds | ITV News

An exclusive survey for ITV News has added to concerns that working parents are suffering professionally due to issues with childcare amid coronavirus restrictions.

Data provided by charity ParentKind suggests the majority of parents have had to change their work patterns as a result of a lack, or shortage, of holiday childcare provision over the summer months.

The majority of respondents to the survey also said they had been forced to use their annual leave for the same reasons.

Bethan Jones told ITV News the career she has built over the past 10 years is “in jeopardy” because she is a new mother.

She said she and other women in her situation, are having to choose their child over their career.

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