When did wraparound care become commonplace?

[daysonmybicycle]

I was born in 1980 and don’t think there was anything like that in place when I was at school. I think my granny used to collect me from school until I was about eight and then I let myself home. Not sure what others did or in school holidays. I think childminders were a ‘thing’ but not very well regulated or checked.

Wraparound care certainly isn't the norm where I live in Scotland. There are no breakfast clubs or after school provision at any of our local schools. When my kids were primary age they went to an after school club at a community centre but that closed down due to lack of numbers.

They did exist in the early 80's. My children went to a private nursery who did school drop off and pick up once they started school. It wasn't cheap but it was the only way at I, as a single parent could work full time.
This was on the outskirts of a small, rural town in Yorkshire

It's interesting how much it varies.

I was at a childminder from 3 months to 2 years.
Then a mix of nursery, pre-school and childminder until reception.
Then when I started reception, I was in breakfast club from 8am and was picked up from after-school club at 6pm, as well as full-time holiday care.

My parents both worked full-time for the NHS but the vast, vast majority of my classmates had a SAHP parent or a part-time working parent. I was born in '88.

Late 70's/early 80's -DM was a registered childminder. She looked after a couple of young children and also did wrap around care for another couple of families.

Don't forget The Sullivans and Sons and Daughters on every day.

Really, what/who was it? I only ever remember my mother's friends or my big sister.

No childminder or pre/after school clubs existed.

I am 55 and never had it when I was a child. Mums ( usually) tended to be sahm's or didn't go out to work until kids were at secondary school age. I'm not saying this was the same for all areas but I honestly can't think of any mum down our road or any of my friends mum's who worked much !

DHs mum worked, but his dad worked in a shipyard and started and finished early. So she worked early evening instead. I can’t imagine she would have been able to afford childcare anyway.
When his mum worked more later, In the summer they went to summer schemes near their grans house as they weren’t a full day. The boys brigade would take them away for a full week even 2.

I think there were more school hours jobs available. I was born late 70s. My Mum worked weekends only until my brother and I were about 7/8. Then she worked in an office 9-3. She would drop us at school on her way to walk to work (about a 20 minute walk away). We left school by ourselves and let ourselves in at home. We were alone for about 15 minutes.

One of my Mum's friends worked full time so her DC used to come to our house every morning before school. In the school holidays we had a childminder but it wasn't anyone registered. It was a local retired lady who answered an ad in the local paper. She came to our house in the holidays and I remember we had to call her "Miss Brown".

I've been teaching for 20 years. I first worked in London and most of the schools had breakfast and after-school club but when I moved out of London fewer schools had them. It's only been around the last ten years or so they've become ubiquitous. My own DC went to a small primary school and they only introduced wraparound care about 5 or 6 years ago. Before that we relied on a local private nursery who collected them.

That’s a good point. I sometimes went to work with my mum. Wouldn’t be allowed these days.

I was born in 1978. When I was young my parents used to pay some random woman they'd found who advertised in the paper to come and pick us up from school. She mostly smoked and watched Sons and Daughters and generally ignored us. She was very nice, though.

My Mum got rid of her when we were about 8 and 10 as we were always out playing with other kids in the neighbourhood anyway.

When my DC were small my mother suggested that I might like to find a rando from a newspaper advert with no qualifications, insurance or DBS checks to pick up my primary age kids. I declined.