Co parenting and school holidays. Need some advice please.

[Madmilkmaid]

Myself and exH share ds 70/30 custody. He has him 1 weekday night after school and overnight, a Saturday from lunchtime and over night and every other Friday after school and over night.

The problem I have is with the school holidays coming up. ExH is of the opinion that he has ds from when he finishes work on his midweek day and his every other Friday and I will have the childcare to arrange for every day time.
I think it should be he has responsibility 30 % of the time and that included daytime during the school holidays. That he should be using his holidays from work to accommodate this.
What's everyone's opinions, how do you work it out?
Im currently looking for a pt job but is impossible as I will need childcare during the holidays if he refused to take on his fair share of the childcare.

Tbh he doesn’t have to do anything he can continue with the current arrangement.

Obviously in an ideal world you would work together to cover holidays .

Your wording though suggests on the one hand you are selling it to him as bonus time but also just doing it to save money.

Does he use any of his holidays to cover childcare through the year ? As we know unless you have a term time job it doesn’t cover it .

Yeah he needs to sort childcare on those weekdays. Those are his days.

Thanks for the replies. No he doesn't use any holidays for any childcare during the year at the moment as he can work flexitime to cover his school pick ups and drop offs. He uses his holidays for actual "holidays".
He's arguing to up contact to 50% but I've tried explaining that he can't even cover his 30% at the moment if he isn't going to have ds/sort childcare for his days during the holidays.
He doesn't pay any money (gives me a few bits towards his packed lunch during school time and helps towards uniform etc) so I really need to get some work. If I knew he was having him during school holidays on his days I could at least commit to working those days.

Go to them CSA about child support. He should be paying something.

Those are definitely his days to arrange childcare for. Tell him it’s his responsibility. If he refuses then he isn’t meeting the 30% mark. Let alone 50%!

Oh then go to cms . His share will help pay for childcare.

Ask him how he plans to cover 50% of the holidays.

You May have sorted this now but I wondered what he does with your DC after his midweek overnight? Just drop him off at school? And in the holidays is his plan to drop him back to you?

Your post strongly implies you're not working at all in paid work so he probably sees it as not an issue but he's not even paying maintenance! He really has set things up to suit himself.

Since he's not paying anyway I'd probably go for 50/50, get it formalised then get a job and start thinking of your financial future.

Unfortunately your ex sounds like a selfish twat who only looks after number 1 so he'll probably try to shove all the responsibility back to you.