Please let me know if this would actually help parents?

[ordinaryhousewife]

We are always hearing about the BLACK HOLE in public funding but not often hearing about radical solutions If I am mad please feel free to let me know but picture this ( All of it please ) The Government stops Child benefit altogether, along with the supporting admin system. Remember I am talking only of the CHILD BENIFIT SYSTEM. They then make every Primary School in the UK open from 7 am to 7 pm 360 days per year. For families, the facilities would include, a FREE breakfast club before 9 am Free lunch cooked on the premises, and free after-school activities. With free tea club between 5 pm and 6.30 pm again cooked on the premises with parents welcome to eat with their children and siblings talking about their day etc. All remaining children are being collected by a designated responsible adult or parent by 7 pm having completed any homework. For the local community, it would mean jobs all at the living wage or more. All jobs would be permanent contracts ranging from PT to full-time. All Head Teachers would become the only ones responsible for overseeing Education matters between 9 am and 3 pm. With the Coordination Manager overseeing everything else the vast amount of New staff would coordinate 7 Days a week. Not, all parents may wish to take up everything on offer, and the holiday clubs would have to be booked in advance it would take a great shift in thinking from a Headteacher and their staff but primary schools could be a big part of ceasing child poverty improving the mental wellbeing of whole communities and integration would be greatly improved. Any parents not wanting to have their children take part in any out of Education activities at all would not be able to claim Child benefit from a system that no longer exists. There are many other benefits in place to financially help parents.

Is your nanny getting too expensive and you're looking for cheaper solutions?

Sounds mostly good to me. Just because it’s open 7-7, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the majority would use it for 12 hours a day.

Like nursery, most children don’t attend full time.

I don't know why you think this would cost less than child benefit.

But its a shit idea

Catastrophic for family relationships, parent and child mental health and wellbeing, make providing a decent education an impossibility by turning schools into childcare facilities.

Remove children from families, remove responsibility from families perfect institutionalised robots

I really strongly feel this would be bad for children and would exaccerbage the gap between parents of SEN children (who almost certainly would not cope) and everyone else. I doubt scrapping CB would fund this either.
What we actually need is:

• the right to use family & friends for free hours and tax free childcare.
• the right to work from home from 3pm for all parents with any costs to employer subsidised
• tax credits to come back with an acceptance that primary kids (&SEN kids beyond this) need one parent working part time.
• single parents working requirements on UC should be reduced.

Even if people loved the idea, you would never be able to hire enough staff, I find it impossible to hire as it is and I don't want anywhere near that number. Most people don't want to work any later than 5pm, mostly not even 3pm.

Well I need the CB to buy exciting things like food and have 1 teenager so wouldn’t get this anymore. I’ve already paid for the wrap around care / nursery since my child was 2. So what’s in it for me?

Seeing I work nightshifts 19.30-0800 when would I see my child?

Utterly horrendous idea. I want to raise my children, I want to be with them. I want them to be with one another, and build familial bonds. Absolutely NOT to your awful idea. I want LESS school time, and MORE family time.

Have you not got children?!

You would opt out of the extra hours because it wouldn’t be mandatory.