Mothers At Home Matter’s response to the highly publicised March of the Mummies has been published in the Daily Mail today. Let’s recognise Choice and March for all Mummies.

Mothers At Home Matter’s response to the highly publicised March of the Mummies. Let’s recognise Choice and March for all Mummies.

Mothers At Home Matter was asked by the Telegraph to comment on the proposals put forward by Civitas on reforming childcare. Conversations around childcare must positively include and recognise those mothers who choose, or would prefer the choice to, carry out this valuable work themselves. For ten years the Department for Education has been sitting on evidence that two-thirds of mothers would rather work a lot less and spend more time being a mum, but policy announcements and government cash all go in the opposite direction. We need to listen to mothers.

Tax & The Family and Mothers At Home Matter write to The Guardian: Jeremy Hunt, the latest Chancellor, said that the Government should be compassionate, with those who are struggling. At a time of growing in-work poverty he should consider tax changes which benefit the least well-off — in particular those in poverty with incomes of less than 60% of the median; those where one parent stays at home to look after children or care for a relative; and those with large families.

Mothers at Home Matter welcome the news that Liz Truss and her education minister, Kit Malthouse, are exploring widening the options for childcare, freeing parents to spend on childcare as they see fit. We remind Liz Truss of her pledge to remove the penalties for parents staying at home to care for their children and implore her and Kit Malthouse that this cash should also be accessible for parents caring at home.

Mothers At Home Matter and Tax & The Family are highly critical of today’s announcement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to abolish the 45p rate and advance to the reduction to 19p in the basic rate of tax next year. He is focussing the tax reductions on those with higher incomes, while very largely ignoring those who pay income tax even though they are in poverty

With gratitude to our monarch, Elizabeth II.

‘A single earner household family in the UK pays 85 per cent more tax than a comparable French family, twice as much as a comparable US family, and eleven times more than a comparable German family,’ writes Danny Kruger MP. Will Liz Truss make ‘a grand commitment to put families at the heart of the domestic agenda?’

Our response to the article in The Telegraph on 11th July 2022 ‘Broken Britain in Childcare Crisis’. Anne Fennell argues that it only demonstrated half of the story about care for our children.

The Sunday Times printed an article on 5th June 2022 stating that some women were struggling to afford to go back to work after having children. It used the term ‘economically inactive.’ This is Anne Fennell’s letter to the editor in response.

Our press release in response to the dialogue surrounding The Sunday Times’ article on 5th June 2022 which stated that some women were struggling to afford to go back to work after having children.

The Children’s Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has been asked by Government to conduct an independent review into contemporary family life. MAHM will submit evidence but read on the discover how you can add your voice too.

This past week Mothers at Home Matter joined Tax and the Family at an online event hosted by Miriam Cates MP and CARE on the Taxation of Families.

Mothers At Home Matter was invited to the Houses of Parliament to hear Erica Komisar talk about ‘raising adolescents in an age of anxiety’.

The Chancellor in his Spring Statement said that the number one priority in the Conservatives desire for tax reform is to reduce taxes for ‘hard-working families’. The tax system does not recognise the ‘family’, writes our Chair, Anne Fennell. All tax cuts are for ‘hardworking individuals’. Focused tax cuts should be on HOUSEHOLD incomes with children.

This past week, 21st February, the Duchess visited Denmark —reported to have the world’s happiest children — looking to learn from their approach to early childhood.

In one aspect of parenting the Danish are less free than us. We wrote a joint letter MAHM wrote a letter to the Duchess together with our sister organisations in Sweden (Haro) and Denmark (HJEM) and a Danish professor for Early Childhood (Ole Henrik Hansen) to raise the situation, as we understand it, of the challenges faced by mothers wishing to be home.

Anne Fennell, our Chair, has been asked to speak on behalf of Mother At Home Matter alongside Miriam Cates MP and three other guests to speak about parenting in a digital age.

The event will explore the impact of social media, phones, gaming, new technology - the benefits and the harms and look at the importance of the home and of family life.

“Given everything that science tells us about the critical importance of the earliest years of life, our babies and toddlers must now be a priority for Government as we recover from the pandemic.” We co-signed a letter from 1001 First Days Movement to the Home Secretary.

Calling all members…a chance to push for change. MPs want your views! Politics is led by public opinion and one of the key steps forward is to show there is an appetite for change. Miriam Cates MP and Danny Kruger MP would like to hear the views of our members and friends. Family policy and the unfairness in the taxation system is something that they are particularly concerned about. Add your voice!

The University of Edinburgh and the Butterfly Baby Clinic are investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parent-infant wellbeing and early year’s professionals in the UK and piloting a new nature-based mindfulness meditation wellbeing tool as part of their study.