Our Impact
➡️In 2021 we took the Government to court for indirect sex discrimination due to the way the self employed income support scheme had been calculated. In the Court of Appeal we won and proved that the scheme discriminated against mothers in the way it was calculated
➡️In 2022 we organized the March of the Mummies, a national protest where 15,000 parents marched across 11 cities in the UK to demand Government reform of childcare, flexible working and parental leave. The march has been credited with triggering a national conversation about how the system is failing parents.
➡️In 2022 our work was mentioned in Parliament every 10 days.
We secured £1.3 million for the women we support.
We provided 70,000 women with free legal advice and support.
➡️During the pandemic we successfully campaigned for:
– Childcare bubbles,
– Excluding under 5s from the rule of 2 people meeting
– A grant for parents on low incomes who were forced to stay at home if their child contracted Covid
– The prioritization of pregnant women for the covid vaccine
– Partners to be given access to pregnancy scans and labour wards