A mum has made her own daughter redundant after the coronavirus pandemic ravaged her business. Alison Platt explained to Rena that there was no more work for her as an apprentice at Mother's Little Helper.
The 49-year-old will be unable to pay her daughter's wages when the Government's furlough scheme comes to an end on October 31.
Rena, 19, is now struggling to find herself another job. Alison, from Abergavenny, South Wales, said: "For a mum to tell a child 'I’m sorry, this wonderful dream we had isn’t actually going to work out' is really disappointing. "I wonder how could you do that to your daughter but when the money is not there, you can’t afford to pay." Rena, who was working towards her level two childcare qualification, is one of
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