I/we currently require childcare for:


2015 2011 2010


27% 22% 15% 6% 5% 9% 5% 1% Morning sessions only 3% 0% 0% 0%


Afternoon sessions only


2%


Before school only


Comments:


I, the non-serving wife, cannot afford to work full time due to the cost of childcare before and after school plus more so in the school holidays which is ridiculously expensive.


Even the hours offered in this survey do not cover the time we need. Sometimes it mornings, sometimes afternoons, nights or evenings, weekday’s weekends holidays everything. They are not flexible at all.


My husband and I have put off having children as we simply cannot afford it without having to quit my or his career.


It is disgusting that working parents are forced to give up work purely because of childcare costs and then people complain when the same non-working parents need to claim from the government.


With a mortgage, to pay there is no way I could afford one baby let alone any more. There doesn’t seem too much help available for parents in the military at all. Even discounted childcare is nearly a whole month’s wages for some. Why is it so expensive anyway?!


1% 2%


After school only


Both Before and after school


All day (i.e. standard working/ office hours)


More than 10 hrs a day


17% 13% 19% 15% 1% 7% 10% 3%


School holidays only


Does not apply


18% 14%


45% 40%


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