Our on-base nursery is utterly inflexible in its approach to childcare. The cost of childcare is directly effecting where I can afford to be posted.


Childcare costs should be consistent across the RAF even when in a more expensive area. You have little say in where you live and how expensive your living costs are.


Having a school aged child with additional needs, trying to find holiday clubs that are suitable for my child to use is impossible and I have to pay extra for a childminder with SEND training.


The Stn supported crèche is only run between the hours of 0900-1500 which does not at all support the RAF working family…..The RAF is really letting us working families down here.


The RAF is not flexible with working hours. My husband gave his employer a flexible working form to be told “you’ve got 2 hopes of that”.


Satellite SFA sites do not get the same level of support or visibility as the main unit.


I am amazed at how the quality and cost of childcare provided on RAF camps varies so much camp to camp. Some are outstanding and others dreadful and yet the RAF keeps them as their childcare provider.


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