Is it time we all helped to provide voluntary child care

[Maryjane3227]

So I've read all the frustrated threads from parents wishing their children could return to school, and working in a school I know that September could mean "blended learning"(part-time hours in school, continuation of home learning).
How many mumsnetters would be happy to give 2 hours a week voluntarily to their communities to help with the child care provision that will be required if/when children are not in school come Sep?
If for example church halls or empty office spaces could be used, and all the necessary legal bumpf was completed, how many of us would help out for the good of everyone?
Or is this mess someone else's problem to sort out?

Not sure my husband would be up for this but after he retired my father volunteered at his local nursery for years. I think he gave up when he got to 80.

He used to do 'woodwork' with the children, designing and making toys that they could assemble and paint. He worked individually with each 3-4yr old child every week.

He loved it. And apparently the owners loved having him, because he was the only man there and he was the only adult male some of the children ever saw.

Nope! I'd be last in that queue.