article_snippet.sent: More than half of mothers rely on grandparents for childcare when More than half of mothers first go back to work after maternity leave, and two-thirds of grandparents with grandchildren aged under 16 provide some childcare.
article_snippet.sent: Research suggests 1.9 million grandparents have given up a job, reduced 1.9 million grandparents hours, or taken time off work to look after 1.9 million grandparents grandchildren.
article_snippet.sent: In many families, grandparents play an integral part of caring for grandparents grandchildren and for many people that’s a financial necessity,’ Miss Harman said.
article_snippet.sent: But many people are working longer and today’s generation of grannies are working until ’s generation of grannies’re 67.
article_snippet.sent: ’s generation of grannies don’t want to have to choose between carrying on with ’s generation of grannies job and this role ’s generation of grannies regard as so important in ’s generation of grannies lives, which is ’s generation of grannies role with ’s generation of grannies grandchildren.
article_snippet.sent: ‘More and more daughters and daughters-in-law are in work, childcare is more expensive and grandmothers are now working.
article_snippet.sent: there has been a policy which recognises this role of grandparents.
article_snippet.sent: Sam Smethers, chief executive of the charity Grandparents Plus, said:
article_snippet.sent: Grandparents are the hidden army of carers in Britain today. '
article_snippet.sent: We know that one in five working parents – two million of them - would give up work without grandparents to rely on.
article_snippet.sent: But increasingly grandparents are working too.