Working around school hours with autistic child and no wraparound care

[Robinthebird]

Hi.
I have a 5 years old child. The school and we think he has high functioning autism. He is in school from 9 to 3. He is trying hard to make it. I am not working because the weekends, holidays and after school times are difficult. He struggles if we say no. I just figured out how to book a holiday club for him. Because most of the places don't have 121 support.
Now the biggest problem for us that my availability to work. How are you doing that? The school don't offer breakfast club or after school club. I can work only in school days and hours. My husband works full time and Monday - Friday. What are the parents of sen children do to work?
Thank you.

To some extent this will depend on his exact needs, my DD cannot cope with afterschool club but is ok with a childminder as it's a smaller group, and she understands if DD just wants to chill out in the corner with a book. I have managed to find one holiday club that will take her, but she struggles with consecutive days so don't send her often. Between annual leave (both of us) and parental leave we can usually manage to cover the holiday, though don't get a lot of time off together. I do only work 3 days a week, and have a flexible employer which makes it easier.
Of the SEN parents I know who's kids can't do wraparound at all, one of them works as a midday supervisor but this is only about 10 hours a week, one is a TA in her daughter's school (which she was very lucky to get), and one works evenings and weekends in a restaurant. The rest don't work at all.

I wfh mainly, I am only 2 days though so don't clock in til after school run and keep my lunch for the school pick up.
others I know, dinner lady but this isn't many hours, self employed, flexiable working pattern, found a job which contracted hours are 10-2, late shift at supermarkets.

Thank you very much for your replies. I appreciate that.

For many years, I couldn’t work because of DC’s additional needs. Now I work part-time TTO for an organisation who supports parents who have disabled DC. It only works because it is flexible and DC have a lot of support in place. Even then, it is still a difficult juggling act. There are points, especially over the last few months, where I sometimes wonder if I should resign.

I used to work weekends and nights when my husband was home while my children were younger. I now work 4 full day shifts per week as oldest can babysit the younger one and luckily my husband can now wfh more often.