Comments:
I think the MOD has to be equally responsible because as military families move around it’s already very difficult for spouses of servicemen/women to maintain a job. If there isn’t the childcare support then it is just impossible for partners to go out and work.
The MOD requires its Service personnel to regularly move and as such I believe it to be a MOD responsibility to ensure adequate childcare provision is catered for. The working hours are at best unpredictable and prolonged absence from home for courses or deployments already put tremendous strain on a family, this is increased when spouses are unable to work because of commitments placed upon their family by the MOD. In the long term military spouses are disadvantaged when their family leaves the Military due to poor employment history, which quite often can be a direct result of their Military spouse’s service with the Armed Forces.
As military families move around no assistance from close family is available so we have to rely on expensive childcare. MOD/LA should provide discount
It should be shared because the MOD dictate where families live and they bring much to a local community. The Local Authority is sometimes not always aware of the exceptional circumstances military families find themselves in. Greater communication between the two is needed
When a unit is in or near a town, then responsibility is more for Local Authority. When a unit is remote, e.g. Leeming, then responsibility must rest with the MOD. Either way, if the MOD wants its workers to be able to attend to their duties then the MOD must take responsibility in childcare provision and sustainability in every area.
If we were living anywhere else, and working etc it wouldn’t be the MOD’s issue. Other people outside of the MOD manage.
The RAF needs you to be available for a variety of shifts & deployable at short notice. We therefore believe the MOD should be responsible for the provision of childcare supporting a sustainable work life balance.
Schools that take on forces children receive extra funding from the government per term. This would be better used to fund expensive childcare bills for serving parents.
It is not the MODs full responsibility to help or provide our childcare however I believe they should assist where possible especially upon posting, detachment and other such long instances of a spouse being absent.
The MOD needs to accept it is a lot harder for military families to get the childcare they need. Having to rely on child-minders/nursery/preschool is expensive. It isn’t like we can have family drop everything to help with children.
We have struggled to find childcare at 4 separate units. This should be taken into account by the MOD. One unit was unable to provide child care for serving personnel (which was funded by the Benevolent Fund) because they were forced to take on civilian children to help out the local community first!
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