A little bit of help please?
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Nurseries don’t tend to accept children once of school age. If you need wrap around childcare, you’ll need to look for holiday clubs, take annual leave, and/or ask for family support. You could also look for school hour jobs - start at 9am, and finish 2/230pm, so you’ll be able to drop off and pick up.
Most nurseries do not provide childcare once children are of school age. So a combination of holiday clubs, family help and using your own annual leave to try and cover it, it is a nightmare!
Breakfast and after school clubs run by the school if they do them, or a childminder again if they do school runs as I've found quite a few don't l. For school holidays some nurseries offer holiday clubs otherwise it's using holidays, a childminder, or finding a holiday clubs somewhere
Is your new job full-time? What will your working days/hours be? If it’s a regular 9-5, you’ll need to pay for breakfast club in the morning (usually 7.45am start) and after school club too (usually ends at 5.30pm) so as long as you can get there for pick-up, you should be ok. For the 15 weeks of the year which is school holidays you’ll have to make use of holiday clubs which are roughly £60 per day. Or if you have any friends/family who could look after your child, plus use up any annual leave you get.
You can check if your nursery or surrounding areas do holiday clubs. It may be worth trying to find out where parents or his new school send their children during holidays and putting your child in the same place. If you access Universal credit then you’ll be able to claim child care costs during term time if they go to an approved holiday club setting. I’ve mentioned holiday club a lot because at some point he’s going to get too old to stay in the nursery/bored.