How to find childcare during school holidays?
Can I ask how parents are keeping full-time jobs while having children in school?
My daughter is due to start school, but I work full time. She's going to have half terms, inset days, the 6 week summer break, how are parents of the UK attending their job while their kids aren't at school?
I don't know anyone in the area, she has grandparents but the very most I could ask them to do would be two days a week because they're all in their 70's and it's unfair and unrealistic to think they could watch a toddler for 37.5 hours a week.
I can work from home but I have to be on calls to customers all day long which isn't possible with her with me.
Please help, I need ideas, and to understand because I cannot drop my full-time hours.
Thanks for any advice you can give,
- a very worried mum
Posted Mar 6, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC