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ARE POORLY PLANNED
HOLIDAYS CAUSING YOU CHILDCARE CHAOS?
More than half of the UK public believe that the school holiday system should be restructured in order to benefit budding entrepreneurs and “home businesses” according to ava, part of The Anvic Group, a virtual assistant service that specialises in professional telephone answering.
Many small business owners have bemoaned the lack of consistency in the term times set by schools throughout England and Wales - with the problem coming to a head during the recent Easter break, when certain schools in the same towns and cities staggered their holidays.
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This left many families who have children at different schools facing childcare chaos. ava’s latest survey also suggested that women (62%) are most in favour of a rejigged system, while men (45%) are clearly more sceptical. When the results were broken down by age demographic,
it was the 25 to 34-year-old category that supported a proposed change the most (59%). This is unsurprising, given that this group are arguably the most likely to be starting a family.
Lucie Greenwood, Sales Manager at ava, said the unpredictable
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