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I’m not saying it’s solely an MOD issue but the cost and lack of flexible child care makes it very difficult for partners to go back to work properly. My husband was recently sent away for a month with just over a weeks’ notice - and the date for coming home keeps changing. How are you supposed to arrange childcare around that?
Childcare is expensive and quite often there is a substantial waiting list, resulting in spouses being unable to work, thus putting them in an impossible position. The nature of military service means working times are unpredictable and having to commit to full time childcare is exorbitantly expensive with unit nurseries proving inflexible in their approach to providing childcare.
I feel the military severely let’s families down in the area of family friendly working policies such as parental leave and recognition of the spouses work commitments. I feel military discount schemes or military run childcare establishments would be a valuable asset that would provide jobs.
Husband is a shift worker and shifts change frequently. Childcare provider only offers set hours a week and they cannot be adapted around changing shifts. It is also horrifically expensive - around £700 per month.
Childcare costs have prevented me from seeking employment.
We are posted in Scotland where children start school at 5 which means we pay out child care for a full year more than England and Wales.
I had to stop working before Christmas as the cost of childcare at our nursery on camp was £300 higher per month than my wages! I loved my job as a learning support assistant in a junior school and am really missing my work! I feel that I had no choice but to finish working as it wasn’t fair for my family to be losing that much money!
I have PVR’d and will leave the RAF in the summer due to the price of childcare, leaving a job I love as I cannot pay the costs for 2 preschool aged children
My wife is unable to attend an offered University place as we cannot afford childcare.
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