Who do I go to, where do I start to get a pressure group to force a change in law/policy? Any I can join???
I earn a good salary yet have this hideous amount going out on childcare, and that's along with doing all the bloody paperwork we have to do as 'employer' (nanny share arrangement so roughly same as nursery cost). After these costs I really am just working for some intellectual stimulation. Other ladies in my NCT group, inteligent women at that, cannot even afford to go back to work.
What the hell? I'm sure the legislation Baroness Scotland drew up then flaunted herself in her employment of an illegal Tongan nanny was all about getting mums to feel too guilty to pay cash in hand and use us as tools to effect Labour's failed anti-immigration measures (as if we didn't have enough guilt already)
So...... DAVID CAMERON - I want my childcare costs coming out of my PREtax income now!!!!