Britain's cost-of-living crisis is fast becoming a key battleground
area on which the next general election will be fought. As parties gear
up for 2015, Labour has promised to alleviate the strain on hard-working
parents with an increase in state-funded childcare. Hard on its heels,
the coalition also proposes to extend the hours of free childcare to
parents with two-year-olds.
While affordable childcare has long
been recognised as key to our economic infrastructure, there's a
fast-growing group for whom no such election pledges have been aimed:
the sandwich generation – those who carry the dual responsibility of
caring for young children alongside elderly or disabled relatives.
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