Hi,
I am starting to really worry about infant school allocations.
We have applied for
School A: excellent school, just down the road and we are likely to get a place there.. BUT: after school clubs end at 4 o clock. The only childminder who used to pick up from this school has stopped the service (I learned yesterday and have been panicking ever since). I have made inquiries (local facebook group, childcare.co.uk) and we seem to live in a completely childminder-free village (stokbrokers belt, lots of SAHMs). Great!
School B: Great school, on my way to work, offering breakfast club and after school provision till 6. Great. But we probably won't get a place as living too far away.
Ever since learning that the one childminder who used to pick up from School A doesn't do it any more I am panicking. How do people manage?
Oh yes, further complications: we have another child to pick up from another place of childcare near my work and a husband who works an hour away. My husband will try to apply for flexible working which, if approved, would mean a 6 am start (and getting up at 4 am) which would allow him to leave just before 3 to manage a pickup at 4. He is getting up at 5 currently and it's already killing him.
Cutting hours almost impossible in my job, financially also not viable at the moment.
I could cry.