Two children in two different childcare providers, one with child-minder and the other at breakfast club and now third after school child-minder as most don’t like collecting children from school


I am currently on maternity leave and we will be hiring a nanny when I return to work, but this will make it almost not worth me going to work.


We only have our children in nursery 4 days a week for 10 hours a day as we cannot afford to have them in for the whole 5 days.


If I lose my place at after school club, I lose my job as there are no alternative. Other child minders are not flexible for RAF shift patterns, meaning as a dependant I am unable to take work outside of normal working hours, and have to pay for set hours of childcare each week that I do not need


Unable to use grandparents to help due to being halfway across the country from them!


We moved to new SFA in December. My maternity pay stopped in January...cannot find a suitable child-minder for both children so we are a salary down and I’m at home looking after the children...not entitled to Tax credits so we are now worse off due to moving ..I have grandparents who would love to look after the kids but we live too far away.


The main cost factor is the before and after school sessions. Also the fact that in our nursery, if you take the children out, you have to still pay the full cost of the place. I can’t afford to even take my children on holiday as I do not get a break in paying fees.


The camp I serve at now offers no form of childcare for the age bracket of my 2 children and we live abroad with no chance of help from family.


My mum has had to move down from Scotland as I am a single parent and didn’t have any other option when I recently deployed. As I frequently have meetings, courses & work commitments beyond the local nurseries hours of 0730 till 1730, I have even more pressure to employ an Au pair when she leaves as I can’t afford a child-minder or nanny.


We pay for our children to be in a child-minder setting for 11 hours a day due to work hours and commuting from place of work to where my quarter is


I’m a single father who requires full time nursery/child-minding as well as possible evenings due to flying but I cannot afford all this in Hampshire


The children benefit from going to nursery, making friends, being more sociable etc.


I purposely sought employment that fit in around school hours but as a class teacher this doesn’t exist so I am now doing intervention work thus not fulfilling my career. I felt the child-minder’s are too expensive and no school offers out of hours care.


Nursery on base is full! We have had to go off base at considerable cost and inconvenience to ourselves. This is neither fair nor right.


Currently in the process of moving as I need to be close to my parents so that I can have them look after my daughter and I can return to work.


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