31%


28% 21%


However, at the moment my/our childcare arrangements are: 26%


2015 2011 2010


19% 13% 10% 8% 4%4% 2%


Parent at home


Other family member e.g. grandparent


1% 0%1% 1% 1%1% Nanny


5% 5% 5% 19% 13% 8% 12% 23% 20% 19%


Au pair Childminder Before/after school club


Part-time nursery


Full time nursery


Does not apply


Comments:


To establish a before and after school club, possibly on school premises...would provide work prospects for many to help run the clubs and potentially have the space to care for larger numbers of children (as happens in the UK already at many establishments)


My wife is currently unemployed due to a number of reasons. She is a nurse working within the NHS, and as you can imagine this involves shifts, so prolonged separation for courses and spending 13 month away from my parent unit for pre-deployment and operational deployments make her employment untenable. Employers support where they can but suddenly demanding 13 months off due to last min deployments, or the regular cancelling of shifts due to me being ‘On call’ is an impossible situation.


We have been posted away from family so grandparents are unable to help. Then they throw silly shift patterns in that change at a moment’s notice. The childcare is poor quality, no availability, very expensive and can’t be adapted around shift patterns. As the wife and mother in a military family I am incapable of having even a part time job. I have a degree I am unable to use and am wasting my life supporting my husband because the MOD are incapable of providing the support needed for us to maintain a normal standard of living.


One child is in out of school club on base but we have to take the baby to a nursery in the next town, opposite direction to my 60 minute commute as there are not enough spaces / provision.


My wife was forced to give up her full time job as a teaching assistant as she was only bringing in £800 a month and childcare was costing us over £1000 a month! Meaning it’s not practical or beneficial for her to work anymore. We are based at Odiham and childcare costs here are extortionate compared to RAF Shawbury.


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