UK chancellor urged to remove £100k childcare ‘cliff edge’ prompting parents to cut work hours

<p>Critics say threshold pushes higher-paid staff to cut back on work and often mothers to stop working to avoid losing entitlement</p><p>John Healey has been urged to fix the £100,000 childcare “cliff edge”, that means some higher-paid employees cut back on work to avoid losing their entitlement.</p><p>Since the latest expansion of taxpayer-funded childcare in 2024, families with young children in which both parents earn less than £100,000 a year can be entitled to 30 hours a week of care - or none at all, if one of them cross that threshold.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/10/uk-chancellor-urged-to-remove-100k-childcare-cliff-edge-prompting-parents-to-cut-work-hours">Continue reading...</a>