To quit my job...

[ohdeerohdear]

...due to lack of childcare?
I'm a teacher. I currently rely on my DH, childminder and after school club twice a week for our primary school aged children. The childminder does mornings but is stopping after half term. There is no space at breakfast club (been on waiting list since June). There are no more places available at the after school club. Basically we're screwed. I've contacted 5 other childminders and they're all full. My DH can only take and pick them up for some of the time because he works. I can't do any school runs on my teaching days (4 days a week). Can't believe our primary has let us down so much with lack of places that I'm going to have to resign. Can anyone relate to this? I can ask friends for the odd favour here and there but nothing regular. I guess I could ask my employer if I could start late twice a week. That would help. They are likely to say no though.

I know this sounds extreme.... but could you take them to your workplace and arrange a taxi for them from there? Are there taxi companies which would take young children, or perhaps have some system for a chaperone? Hopefully a temporary thing as presumably you're on all wait lists for breakfast club/ childminders. Also some nurseries/ childcare providers sometimes arrange transport to and from school, it often works well for a family that might have a preschooler at nursery and then an older child too.

It's crap but I would only jack in my job (particularly a profession) as a last resort. Pull out all the stops to find a solution for the moment.