I’m wondering what working parents do when schools are closed if they have to rely on school as child care during work hours?

I can’t miss work my family will watch them mostly my gma

I’d try to find someone, preferably a family member or if I’m lucky my husband is off that particular day, but if I can’t, I or my husband just take off.

I work from home and my husband works on a hybrid schedule. If the daycare/school is closed, he stays to work from home that day and we just split the day between 2 of us, thus, none of us has to take off from work. Usually it works out pretty well.

I cannot afford to take off. I’m fortunate my grandmother no longer works and can babysit him

if youre able to 'imagine' yourself in another person's shoes I'm sure you'd find a solution

My family members will watch them. Or if I know ahead of time there's no school, I plan to work closing shifts so my fiance is home from work

I've always had jobs where if I NEED to, I can bring my kids

Either my husband or me will take off work. Plan B would be a sitter, our main babysitter is a high school student so she could usually help if school is closed and she is more affordable than a professional nanny but otherwise we also pay for a nanny service that has an app where we can easily sign up for a nanny at any time

It's our first proper year doing it but for us it'll be a mix of annual leave, holiday clubs and family.

I'm currently a SAHM, but when I was a working mom, I worked in school related jobs. So if they were off school, I was off work

I either take A/L or family has him x

My daughter hasn't started school yet, but if nursery is closed (like over Christmas) I take annual leave, won't be able to do it for all the school weeks though.

I’m a teacher, if my children’s school was closed during term time and I was unable to find anyone to take them then I would ask my school if I could bring the children in for the day and give them things to occupy them. The alternative would be to leave thirty children without a teacher for the day.

My mother or my oldest daughter can take care of her sister.

Some jobs offer termtime only contracts so it’s worth checking if this is available and if this works out as a viable option financially over paying for childcare during the school holidays.

I work full time shifts as I'm a nurse. Kids at nursery 3 days a week I work round them. School holidays I either book off or family help out. Going to have to change in Sept when little boy goes to school xx