Just this minute got a notification through that DS school is having an inset day on Friday. 2 school days notice. Apparently the LEA has just told them they are allocated an extra INSET day so they are taking it now.
DD is at a different school and has a long-planned inset day that day so I am taking her away for the night, leaving in the morning, in our only car. DH can walk to pick up DS and has booked the afternoon off. He's up to the wire with annual leave (as am I) as the childcare we had booked for next week cancelled places for both of them, a week ago.
DS has SEN and he normally goes to a CM after school (but that's the one that's cancelled holiday care, and it's also too far to walk). The school apparently think we are sitting at home waiting for our children to come home, twiddling our thumbs, rather than a) working or b) doing things with our other children who need time away from their siblings who have SEMH needs. His school have organised us a family worker who has specifically been working with DD to help her get some mental space away from DS.
It would be bad enough if this was a mainstream school, but to do this to SEN parents who usually have no childcare options at all?