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Childcare options for INSET days

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OutandAboutMum1821 · 21/04/2025 09:18

Do any teachers/TAs have any advice about paid childcare options for INSET days?

Breakfast/after school clubs don’t run on those 5 days, I only have 1 GP alive who works, a local childminder told me she can’t accommodate ad hoc days. Friends I trust work themselves/don’t live locally. I feel a bit stuck.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated 😊

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modgepodge · 21/04/2025 09:23

If the child is young (up to 6/7) some nurseries may take them if they run a holiday club. They’d be open anyway. But may only take during actual holidays like other clubs of course. Worth asking other child minders too as mine took kids of ad hoc days.

LegoHouse274 · 21/04/2025 09:22

Soontobe60 · 21/04/2025 09:21

Surely you’d just take a day off work? INSET days are arranged up to a year in advance.

I assumed OP worked in a school and that's the problem?

Chewbecca · 21/04/2025 09:22

Are both parents teachers?

modgepodge · 21/04/2025 09:21

Are you a teacher yourself? What about the child’s dad? Sounds like the only option is to take a day off yourself (or the child’s dad does) which I appreciate doesn’t work if you are the teacher and need to attend their inset day. Very occasionally I have seen people bring their kid with them to inset days and they sit at the back on an iPad but that depends on the nature of the training and the age/character of the kid.

Soontobe60 · 21/04/2025 09:21

Surely you’d just take a day off work? INSET days are arranged up to a year in advance.

TeenLifeMum · 21/04/2025 09:20

How old is the dc? I had friend’s dc on some insets and they had mine in the holidays as they were teachers.

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