Do you have wraparound care at school next term?

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I’m just interested as I’ve read a few posts recently.

Our school usually has wraparound care provided off site by a local nursery. This isn’t opening up again in September. I’m a SAHM who has been job hunting, obviously I have given up for now unless I can find something within school hours

Anyone else in the same boat?

YABU - all back to normal in Sept!
YANBU - no wraparound care lined up.

@SeagoingSexpot

I'm also astonished that some schools think they can mandate pickup only by parents, and can only suggest parents mobilise and push back on this, hard. I've done most of the dropoff and pickup in the last month alongside DH, but our nanny did some too and my school had no issues with it.

This is just an extension of the farce that is schools deciding when children can walk to and from school alone and mandating that to parents.

Parents in my DS’s class were shocking when I told the school he was to walk hoke himself. They didn’t realise it was allowed for the parent to decide.

I worked in schools for years and there are some HT’s who really overstep with things like that. Schools dictating no childminders are going against current guidance, never mind Septembers

No wraparound care at DCs' school. I work full time, but luckily WFH until 2021, so will take a lunch break at pick up time.

I would like to be applying for other jobs at the moment. I am not very well paid in my current role, I took a step down a year ago to avoid/address a mental health crisis.

However, I have a job and I can work from home, so much better off than a lot of people.

To add a note the above, I am not living as charmed a life as DH; he is working fewer hours for more money and not worrying his pretty little head about September.

Yes, but the hours are changing. They’re only going til 5.30pm, I finish work at 5.30pm. They’re also going to close at 1pm on a Friday for ‘deep cleaning’.

It is a bit much for schools to say only a parent can pick up. What if the parent is working 200 miles away that week! I just about never did drop off and pick up for our 5. We hired someone to do it for decades (5 children - first went to nursery school in 1987 and last 2 left school in 2017 so literally THIRTY YEARS of drop offs and pick ups in a sense.

Bumping for some more votes!