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Lack of wraparound childcare sees parents turn to screen time as they juggle work and family life

Lack of widely available, wraparound childcare, is seeing increasing numbers of parents struggle to juggle work and life - is it any wonder screen time is rising?

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Parents ‘struggling’ to access ‘inconsistent’ wraparound childcare say their career progression is suffering

Parents report issues with wraparound childcare impacts their ability to progress in the workplace. Some are taking unpaid leave and making financial cutbacks to care for their children.

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Lack of London childcare has hit our careers, say parents

A poll by childcare provider Koru Kids found wraparound care in London is inconsistent

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Boss of childcare firm backed by Rishi Sunak’s wife says she’s voting Labour

Exclusive: Rachel Carrell, the CEO of Koru Kids, said Tory infighting had prevented key policies being brought in

The Independent UK

Sunak’s wife donates Koru Kids shares to charity after code of conduct breach

Akshata Murty decided to exit investment after it became ‘unfair distraction’ for childcare business, say representatives

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s wife gives up controversial stake in childcare firm

Akshata Murty gave her 1 per cent stake in the childcare agency to charity in order to let the company ‘focus on its work and grow’

The Independent UK

Hunt criticised by boss of childcare company that Sunak’s wife invests in

Chief executive of Koru Kids, of which Akshata Murty is a shareholder, attacks autumn statement

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Labour asks watchdog to investigate Sunak over wife’s interest in startup fund

PM’s much-criticised Future Fund, set up during the pandemic, gave £2m to companies co-owned by Akshata Murty

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Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife

Four businesses linked to Akshata Murty revealed to have received investment from much-criticised Future Fund

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty to wind down venture capital fund

Catamaran caused controversy because of taxpayer-funded support for startups in which it had invested

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak breached code of conduct over row into wife’s childcare company shares

The prime minister was found to have breached the code of conduct around the confidentiality of investigations

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak's failure to declare wife's shares breached MPs code of conduct

RISHI Sunak’s failure to properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company breached the MPs code of conduct, according to

The National (Scotland)

Labour party membership fell by almost 25,000 in 2022, while its income rose, figures show – as it happened

The party had 407,445 members at the end of 2022, down almost 25,000 compared with 2021, annual accounts show

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak breached ministerial code over failure to declare wife’s childcare shares

Parliament’s standards watchdog concluded the prime minister’s breach was inadvertent and came after his ‘confusion’ around the rules on declaration

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Rishi Sunak’s actions over wife’s shareholdings breached MPs’ code of conduct

Parliamentary commissioner for standards says PM inadvertently broke transparency rules by failing to declare wife’s interest in firm

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak's wife has stake in tech firm awarded £350k in taxpayers' cash

Multi-millionaire Akshata Murty's investment company has shares in Study Hall - which was last year boosted by a grant of £349,976, official records shows

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak's 14 worst gaffes and scandals from his first six months in No10

It's been six months since Rishi Sunak stood on the steps of Downing Street pledging a Government with 'integrity, professionalism and accountability'. Since then three cabinet members have left under a cloud and he's being investigated by Parliament's standards watchdog

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Tory government hit by new sleaze investigations

The Tories have been hit by even more investigations by Parliament’s standards watchdog, including expanding the inquiry into Rishi Sunak’s…

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak now investigated on two fronts by ethics watchdog over wife’s childcare shares row

Probe into PM expanded by standards commissioner

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak could have broken TWO rules in MPs code of conduct in row over wife's shares

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has extended an investigation into the Prime Minister over over his alleged failure to declare his wife's interests in a childcare firm boosted by the Budget

The Independent UK

Watchdog extends investigation into claims over PM’s declaration of interests

The investigation was opened over the shares Mr Sunak’s wife, Akshata Murty, holds in Koru Kids.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s wife’s business links tell the story of Britain’s broken childcare system

Koru Kids is one of many digital platforms positioning themselves as ‘technofixes’ to costly and oversubscribed providers, says researcher Dalia Gebrial

The Guardian - UK

At least 10 Sunak ministers retain roles as private company directors

Practice of retaining business interests appears to have increased under Boris Johnson and again under current PM

The Week

Sunak under scrutiny: the six times the PM has been investigated

Parliament’s ethics watchdog will investigate whether Rishi Sunak failed to declare a potential conflict of interest, in the sixth major scrutiny the prime minister has faced in the past year.

Reuters

British govt publishes PM Sunak and other ministers' interests

Britain's government on Wednesday published an updated list of ministers' interests, including an outline of the affairs of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who is under investigation over whether he properly declared his wife's shareholdings.

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