Mayor Mamdani’s “Parent’s Night Out Scheme”

[orangejuiceinthekitchen]

AIBU to say we need something like this in the UK?

The premise is pretty simple - 500 families get 4 funded hours of evening childcare. Childcare centres will be paid by the city to look after kids aged 6-13 for four hours, the kids will be fed dinner and entertained.

The parents get four hours to do whatever they want - it’s obviously hoped they’ll go out to dinner and spend money in the local community.

If it’s a success, they’ll expand it to other age groups and more children.

AIBU to think this is exactly the type of thing that we need in this country?! It would do so much to stimulate the economy and also just be a boost to people.

Existing staff. Existing facilities. I posted the official web links above.

And that’s why it’s a shit idea for the UK. We don’t have park staff in most areas - other than grounds keepers and maintenance.

However and wherever it was done, the facilities and staff would need to be paid for in the UK

Agree. It is a poor use of tax revenue. This is why you make friends and share babysitting.

When you have kids at school all the annual leave tends to be used to cover the school holidays though.

Luckily people are fully informed of that fact before they have children though - they can then organise themselves accordingly

Pay for your own babysitters.

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