The cover for when my husband is away with work incurs extra costs which are ridiculous. It just doesn’t make financial sense to return to work if 80% of wages is spent on childcare provision. I have given up my career to be a full time parent.
Initial availability of any childcare is a major issue at certain units, let alone quality and flexibility.
There is not enough childcare on base meaning we have to leave & drive to another town for one of the children.
I work part time, and pay for three days a week childcare. This already takes two thirds of my wage, plus I have to pay for an extra day while my husband is deployed as I can’t work weekends and then I also have to cover my son in after school clubs and holidays... It can cost my entire wage for childcare when my husband is away. It feels frustrating and incredibly unfair.
We are posted in Scotland where children start school at 5 which means we pay out child care for a full year more than England and Wales. The child care only covers working hours however being a military mother I am sometimes required to work long hours at short notice but don’t have the childcare to cover this, adding unnecessary stress to an already stressful job.
We pay £750 a month for ‘subsidised’ childcare on base. Expensive when it is difficult for the spouse to find employment but you want your child to have continuity of care and not to be in and out when work does become available or when work is not available.
I had to stop working before Christmas as the cost of childcare at our nursery on camp was £300 higher per month than my wages! I loved my job as a learning support assistant in a junior school and am really missing my work! I feel that I had no choice but to finish working as it wasn’t fair for my family to be losing that much money!
I have a child with addition needs. No Child-minders want him. No provision for addition needs children. After school club does not provide care in holidays so I have to drive my son to his grandparents a hundred miles away for the majority of the holidays. Not ideal as he misses his mum and dad
We have 2 children under the age of 3. One attends the nursery, the other is at a local child- minder as the nursery didn’t have the space and has been on their waiting list for 6 months.
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