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The needs of parents and children have never been higher up the political agenda, with all Parties in the United Kingdom competing to show they are championing families.
But how can Government balance implementing family-friendly policies with the needs of employers?
Are there limits to extending parents rights to flexible working?
And what can be done to close the gender pay gap?
At the end of the 11th Annual National Childcare Week, Daycare Trust brought together an expert panel to explore these issues in front of an invited audience of professionals and opinion formers at a policy debate hosted at HM Treasury and refereed by social commentator and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee. This document is a report of the event.
Guest speaker Rt Hon John Hutton MP, Secretary of State for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform was joined by Dr Katherine Rake, Director of Fawcett Society; Kay Carberry, Assistant General Secretary of the TUC; and Alison Garnham, Joint Chief Executive of Daycare Trust.