Would Would you like to come along to the launch of Home Front: What do mums and dads need to make life work?

No, I'd rather have my nipples removed with a blunt spoon

Fio - the energy scheme is Warm Front

sorry Justine - if we seem a little ungrateful / critical, but are you going to explain to journalists that you have invited MNers but it was only ever possible that the ones based in the SE and working in the city would be there, so whatever is said is not going to be representative of parents on MN, let alone representative of parents generally(who by your stats will be part of the 1/3 working ft x 43% in the SE, so even if all the ones in the SE work in the city it is less than 15% of MN)

SE has it's own ishoooos. House prices and childcare are even more expensive there than elsewhere, but getting services within striking distance is probably easier.

iyswim?

Are there no journos living/working outside London?

How much public money is being used to fund this debate (have 'debates' taken over from 'consultations' as something the government does to make it look as though people have a say when in fact things have already been decided)?

12.30pm-2pm is an extended lunch hour when you take into account even City-based workers will have to travel office-venue.

I could get there - the cheapest ticket (excluding travel around London) is £50. If this is govt-funded, it should have expenses for travel for those it aims to talk to - like MSLCs etc.

the emphasis on what is being best for the 'journos' rather than what is best for the people it supposed to help is crazy. The sunday idea would have been better IMO - DP and I could have had a nice weekend in the big smoke and DS could have run around like a lunatice with any other lunatic children there. I would have got to have had a moan, and Dp would have had some good incentives to have got him there in the first place. Everyone is a winner!

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I care, but I've got to stay late at work that day for a conference call with the States...

Bit of an own goal I think, Mumsnet Towers re location and timing. No way I could make it even if I took a day off, as the DC still need picking up from school at 3.15pm

I have signed up for the work/life balance case study thing that was on here the other week though. Is it still open for others to volunteer for that?

TDWP, as much as I agree that no matter where it was held someone would complain, the 'If you really care you would go' line is a bit unfair.

I care a lot, as no doubt many others do.

I understand and can appreciate why it will be held in London

BUT at over £100 in travel costs alone, how much I care doesn't even come into the equation.

lunch hour?
These are a distant memory for most WOHMs I know, who tend to work through so that they can leave the office before bedtime.

Where did the assumption come from that anyone in London can't be on a low income or a single mother?

If this was held in say, Birmingham, still people would complain they couldn't get to it. London is accessible more than any other city. If you really care you would go.

Well, Mumsnet is not made up of people who can easily be in Central London at a week's notice without their children, is it? My guess is that that is why you have so few replies to this thread. Many of us feel that this clearly has nothing to do with us!

So it's in central London, for people who don't have their children with them? And it's about work life balance?

I'm really not sure you're creating the right impression here. If it's just for London journalists, just invite them, don't pretend it's somehow representative.

So SAHM's can't make it if you can't take kids, WOHM's will be working so that leaves SAHM with school age children in C.London or for people to pay for childcare/take a couple of hours off work?

So SAHM's can't make it if you can't take kids, WOHM's will be working so that leaves SAHM with school age children in C.London or for people to pay for childcare/take a couple of hours off work?

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