Hunt's recent budget slipped out a grotesquely unfair requirement for UC recipients to be available to work 30-hour week when their child turns 3, or face sanctions. Many single parents already struggle with current 16-hour requirement - yet Ministers utterly uncaring as usual 👇

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas

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@CarolineLucas @MothersUncoverd @mgordonwalker So the increase in child care funding was just a pretence. The whole point was to try to force mothers to work more hours (which they now won't be able to afford again even if it there's a nursery place available).

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowe

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