Welfare Reform Bill

I am sorry to repeat what I always say, but it worries me that this distinction is not made. Women looking after children are in full-time employment and cannot be seen as jobseekers or job-ready. If the provision of reasonableness is understood, we cannot expect them to be both full-time mothers and on progression to work, unless we provide the kind of jobs that recognise their specific skills of negotiation of care. I am sorry to say that as yet, I have not come across many employers who do.