Anyone working as lecturer on 0.8FTE?

[dodi1978]

Hi,

I am a lecturer at a UK university. Am currently full-time. 2 children - due to return from mat leave in July,.
Due to childcare issues and general stress levels, I'd like to cut my hours. Unfortunately, anything less than 0.8FTE is not really financially viable, but my line manager told me that, if my work hours went down by just a day, I'd probably just loose my research day and see little other relief on admin and teaching.
Have any of you guys reduced your work hours by a day? If so, how did your workload reduce / how was this negotiated?

Because I have been teaching the same stuff for a bit. So my teaching prep time is minimal. Plus I stuff all my teaching into 2 days. So 2 days teaching, I prep in the evening, 2 days research and 1 day for childcare/admin. However a lot of admin stuff tends to spill over into one of the research days.

Yes, I've been teaching my stuff for years, but it still takes over the week (along with admin/email/various other crap).