Hello, I’m a fairly new mom with a toddler who just turned 2 last week. While I was pregnant, my previous job was cutting back on staff and I was unfortunately in the selection. Therefore I had to go on universal credit right away and have been on it since. I’m now at a point where I would like to start working again as I’m struggling with what little money I’ve been getting from universal credit, as it doesn’t even covers my bills/food etc. My questions are, what do I do first, do I try to get my son into a nursery first, before securing a job? Or do I have to secure a job first? I understand we get the first 16 hrs free for nursery. Am I entitled to that first 16 free hours while I’m still unemployed. Reason I also ask is, because I have no one to look after my son while I go for interviews. So if I could get him into a nursery for a couple of days covering those 16 hrs while I’m job hunting and attending interviews, would help massively. But like I said before, I’m not sure if that the correct order to going about it.