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Campaign to highlight how mad WFH with kids is during lockdown

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UntamedShrew · 09/05/2020 14:56

Hi MNHQ

Please have a read of this thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3902119-is-it-just-me-or-is-this-working-from-home-with-children-completely-unsustainable?pg=6

I don’t know what the answer is, I just know this is having a terrible impact on parental and child mental health.

Possibly government policy to ensure parents’ get some paid leave to care for children and that jobs are protected If they do so?
Some talk of relaxing lockdown so families can share the load?
And definitely, definitely, a meme about wine o’clock and a suggestion to get the play dough out or try bbc bite size is NOT going to cut it.

Other ideas on the thread, do have a read.

Can you help?

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RowanMumsnet · 12/05/2020 15:31

Hello

Very sorry it's taken us a while to get to this - as some of you will know we've had to furlough some staff at MNHQ and cut back on lots of activity so we're moving a bit more slowly than usual.

We haven't read all the posts yet but also wanted to quickly say we're really sorry to see that some of you are having an extremely tough time of it.

We'll have a good read and see if we think there's something we can do. Please bear with us.

MNHQ

RowanMumsnet · 29/05/2020 11:04

[quote CinnabarRed]@RowanMumsnet - where did you get to on this?[/quote]
Hello - we've co-signed this letter with the Fawcett Society and lots of other groups asking the PM to act on this week's IFS study and recognise properly funded childcare provision as the essential economic infrastructure it is (much like, in our opinion, road, rail, and broadband provision).

We've Tweeted about it here if any of you are on Twitter and would like to give us an RT.

We're also collecting some stats at the moment about what our users say about how this crisis has impacted on their careers and we're going to try to make some media hay with that - recognising that as many of you have said, some women/families have been affected worse than others because of their circumstances.

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RowanMumsnet · 02/06/2020 15:02

Sorry for the delayed response.

The survey was in a widget at the side of the screen - it's closed now but the numbers do seem to show that the MNers who responded are worried about the impacts of lockdown on their careers, in lots of cases.

We're going to run a bigger survey soon with more detail soon - we can't really flag it up to you directly because it would skew the results if we encouraged a particular group of users to take part. (But in general, my understanding is that if you join our Insight Panel you get shown most of our surveys!)

One other thing that some of you might be up for - when we think about doing stories like this for the press, one thing that can really help is having a couple of case studies. That means people whose own lives reflect the story the journalist is writing about. Ideally these people are willing to have their photos taken and generally be publicly identifiable.

Fully understand why lots of you may not want to do this for various reasons, but if any of you might be up for it in principle do let us know - you can email us on [email protected] - you wouldn't be committing to anything, just letting us know that you're cautiously interested.

Thanks

MNHQ

RowanMumsnet · 11/06/2020 15:07

Hello

We've just had a request from Emma Yeomans at The Times, and I thought some of you might be interested in talking to her:

'I'm hoping to talk with some parents about how they're finding homeschooling. I'm particularly looking for mums who are finding it increasingly difficult, and are frustrated with the lack of government action on reopening schools.'

Please contact Emma directly on [email protected] if you'd like to find out more.

Thanks
MNHQ

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RowanMumsnet · 17/06/2020 12:32

Hello

Another media request here from the Telegraph, who are looking at this issue at the moment: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/media_requests/3941511-Daily-Telegraph-request-childcare-and-work-under-lockdown

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