Recently I began to study for an Early Childhood Studies degree. But as a mother of three children, I am finding childcare for my elder two is much more of a problem than for my two-year-old.
Although there is after-school provision in the area where I live, I have had problems in finding places for my two elder children. As my daughter cannot attend after-school sessions at the same time as my son, I have had to find another place somewhere else for one of them.
While my local leisure centre offers a daily after-school facility, a large number of the children who attend it have to be chauffeured there from several schools around the town. In the current climate where close supervision of children is essential, I would like to see better wraparound care facilities where the children do not have to leave the school grounds once the school day ends in the afternoon.
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