Why working parents are set up to fail – podcast
Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after laying bare the compounding pressures on modern families.
Between soaring costs of living, rigid workplace expectations and an eye-watering gap between school days and work hours, is the current system setting parents up to fail?
Reged Ahmad speaks with CEO of advocacy group The Parenthood, Georgie Dent, to unpack why raising children has become an impossible mathematical equation and how policy reform can fix it
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