Three families share their struggles with finding and affording nursery places and childminders
efore I even went to my first scan, my unborn baby’s name was down on a nursery waiting list,” says Laura Williams, 31. This was her second child and it had taken months to find a nursery spot for her first daughter, forcing her to take time off work. She had put in a request at five months pregnant but the waiting list had been a year long. “That’s crazy, seeing as a pregnancy is only nine months,” she says.
Williams, whose girls are now three and 14 months, is from Beverley, a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire. “There is very little childcare in the area,” she says. The cost of it all is crippling: the fee of £1,400 a month is “significantly” more than the family’s mortgage. “We earn what we earn and it keeps us going but don’t have any spending money … part of it is our choice to have kids earlier. But where is the incentive for women to go back to work?”
“There is not much choice,” she says. “The nursery we have got him in at the moment has got some issues. They have a gas boiler downstairs and I’ve spoken to other parents who have been complaining about it for weeks because there is a smell of oil.The cost is huge, so they can use the nursery only twice a week. Pattern, a project manager, says her parents take their son for two days and she dropped a day at work to look after him.
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