Education Committee
9 June 2026
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Education Committee House of Commons
00:02 - 00:37
Speaker 6
Order, order. Welcome to this oral evidence session of the Education Select Committee this morning. This is the fourth public evidence session in the committee's inquiry on the early years, and this morning we're hearing from parent-led organisations about the experience of parents of bringing up children in the early years and the systems of support and the services that they rely on. So I'm very pleased to welcome our witnesses this morning, and I'd be grateful if you could introduce yourself to the committee, starting with Justine Roberts.
00:37 - 01:18
Speaker 3
Hello, I'm Justine Roberts, I'm founder and executive chair of Mumsnet and Gransnet. Mumsnet has roughly 8 million monthly users coming on our platform to discuss all their concerns, and often their feckless partners. And we have about 3.3 million members who are currently parenting a child under five and under. So I'm here really to represent their views. We've done a conversational analysis of the conversations over the last 24 months, and so I've got lots of sort of recent data points about what parents are saying about the subject.
01:18 - 01:20
Speaker 2
Lovely, thank you very much. Rachel Grocott.
01:20 - 02:01
Speaker 5
Hello, I'm Rachel Grocott, I'm chief executive at Pregnant Then Screwed. We are a small organisation that have existed for a decade, providing services to help women and parents navigate childcare, flexible working, pregnancy and maternity discrimination, whilst at the same time campaigning for the systems to better support them. Like Justine, we have a community, not quite as big, but about 4,000 members. And what I'll be presenting today is a research that we've done with those members. So we have over 5,000 mothers completed a large survey, primarily on childcare, and lots of quotes to back up the data.
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