Do you incur additional weekly childcare costs during the school holidays?


2015 2011


24% 25% 30%


41%


9% 3%


No, the non-serving partner or other family member


provides it Comments:


Due to not being able to get employment I, the non-serving spouse, am now providing childcare free in holidays. I hope to work again at some point but on this patch there is no provision for holiday child care.


During school holidays the cost of childcare does have severe financial implications to working parents who require yearly contracts


The non-serving partner also works full time for the MOD. We split our annual leave to cover school holidays leaving little time together as a family.


We pay for childcare for 50 weeks of the year, regardless of how many weeks our child is in nursery.


The only MOD supported nursery is in term time only, alongside being very limited hours.


To date we have been fortunate to be able to place our eldest with family and to maximise our leave to cover school holidays however, with my husband deployed this year we will be required to pay for her to attend childcare for some of the holidays. Additionally, during holidays we no longer receive our funded hours therefore pay an additional £11 per day for the youngest. If both attend for a week it will cost us an additional £48 per day.


Yes, less than £75


10% 6% 3% Yes,


between £76 - £100


Yes,


between £101 - £125


9% 7% 4% 4% Yes,


between £126 - £150


3% 3% Yes,


between £151 - £175


4% Yes,


between £176 - £200


4% 3% Yes,


between £201 - £250


6% 2%


Yes, more than £250 per week


Does not apply


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