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“We have an amazing RAF child care centre, which allows me to be able to work… I could not work the hours I do without it. Open all year round, which is amazing.”


“In all the places I have served we have been expected to adapt to what the nursery can provide, rather than them assisting us with what we require to enable my wife to return to work. Ultimately, she has been forced to spend most of her time at home and I am now leaving the RAF as a result.”


“I’m taking my option next year. The expense of childcare, the guilt you can be made to feel about putting your children first (self-induced and from command chain “work all hours” types) and 6-9 month deployments - outside of Sqn deployments - make the RAF unfeasible as a career for me anymore. I’m wing commander aircrew.”


“I’m paying out more than my wage in childcare. The better option would be to leave the RAF … but I keep telling myself the RAF will look at the situation and see that it’s not fair.”


“I think the RAF is losing good people who just can’t make the work - life balance add up.”


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