Comments from responses received:
There is a nursery on camp but it is full and the others in the area are all too far for me to travel not having a car and with lack of regular buses.
Holiday clubs are extortionate, if they are run and if you can get in as demand is high. I believe it should be a priority for the station to ensure there are holiday clubs within *close* proximity to every station, especially given how remote some are.
Not the only trade affected but particularly hard for aircrew with professional spouses… Myself and others have to constantly make ourselves unavailable to the flight planners and often have to turn down last minute requests to go on task, this makes us very unpopular amongst our squadron colleagues and makes those that do not have families feel as though they are constantly covering for those that do.
The childcare provision on camps is often oversubscribed and does not meet the needs of the local community in terms of opening times… The RAF should be supporting families and ensuring minimal disruption for service children. This lack of support is causing people to leave the RAF.
The cost differs from unit to unit so you can be financially worse off when assigned to another unit. Can’t the costs be standardised as the SFA is?
I have a decent level of education but end up in dead end, part time employment such as in pubs and call centres working around his commitments; I change employment regularly and am unemployed for most of the year.
Most of our husbands work shifts, yet we are not allowed to put our children in to suit their shift pattern. They either have to be in for a full or half day and this costs a lot of money. The nurseries on camp should allow more flexibility.
There remains pressure in a male environment for women to just “sort it”.
The most difficult for 2 serving parents is lack for support to find childcare, mainly for summer holidays. Is there a possibility of taking unpaid leave during part of summer hols eg half the numbers of weeks for each spouse?
The cost of child care is a joke, and despite the fact that most of the nurseries near camps couldn’t survive without the service men and women they get literally zero benefits. If a nursery is on MOD property then the service personnel that use it should get a discount.
No facilities to respond to call outs and no support / guidance from the RAF.
We are posted in the south east of England where childcare costs are substantially more expensive However, the military wage does not reflect this, leaving us worse off than we would be if we were posted further north.
Due to a lot of camps being remote, there are not enough practical options for childcare. The station nursery is often the only reasonable option, which means that, even if it is not up to a good standard or is highly priced, we are stuck with no other choice.
Work are sometimes not very understanding of my situation as a single parent. Some of the rules seem out-dated and not centred around retaining people in the RAF.
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