I am sorry this is long and maybe a bit jumbled, but I would really appreciate some advice please.
I have recently secured a job and start work next week. I've managed to sort childcare for DD1 (6), but trying to find childcare for DD2 (2) and DS (11 months) has proved to be difficult. I will be driving to Manchester every day (28 miles there, 28 miles back) and DH currently works in the town centre where we live, so the idea was he would pick up DD2 and DS then get the bus or walk to get DD1 and I would pick them up from DD1's childcare.
A lot of suitable nurseries are full. There was one that we could have possibly used that had availability, but we went to visit it and it was awful. We've managed to get places at the nursery DD2 used to attend, but they can only take them for 3.5 days instead of the 4 we needed. We needed them Tuesday to Friday, but they can only do Monday to Thursday, with Wednesday being a morning only. They can take them both on a Friday from the end of March/beginning of April, but can't fit them in of a Wednesday afternoon until July.
DH works for 3.5 week days and every Saturday. To save him losing Monday as his day off, MiL said that temporarily she would come over and do childcare of a Friday. This is extremely generous of her, as she lives 50 miles away. She would come on Thursday and stay until Friday evening. So DH went into work today to ask if he could change his half day to Wednesday, due to childcare reasons. He was told a straight no. He asked about reducing his working hours to 31 from 35, but was again told no. He works in a bank and is trying to now schedule a meeting with the bank manager, but things are looking doubtful. Funnily enough DH did used to have Wednesday afternoons off, but changed due to a request from one of the managers as a favour. Apparently now no one is allowed to have their half day off as an afternoon. In the past other members of staff have been allowed to start late and go early due to childcare. They've also just employed a new person, but are apparently looking to get rid of an existing person now due to this, so DH doesn't want to kick off a huge fuss. He also thinks it may be in his contract that they can relocate him to another branch if it isnt an unreasonable distance, but he would have to be in the town centre to be able to do the childcare drop offs and pick ups...
Is there anything DH could potentially do? We really needed me to get this job and can't afford for him to give his job up either.
Thank you for reading.