school holidays

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They instead tended to be accessed in schoolholidays, and when emergencies or unforeseen circumstances arose.
A very high proportion of carers (84 per cent) who responded to the survey reported that they were looking after children in the schoolholidays.
Instead, we found a substantial proportion of respondents saying they were using flexi-time and leave entitlements as cover for schoolholidays and children's sickness.
During schoolholidays her oldest son helps in buying and selling the vegetables.
To sum up, it was in schoolholidays that childcare arrangements were most likely to be not 'good enough'.
Many therefore require and find it difficult to find after-school care (rather than day-care), and face extra problems during schoolholidays when they do not coincide with university breaks.
Grandparents and other 'informal' carers played an especially important role during schoolholidays or family emergencies like when child or parent was sick.
Our research focuses on the scenario that contact children are in the care of the non-resident parent for half of the schoolholidays and every second weekend.
While grandchildren are still living with their parents, visits to the grandparents are constrained by the schoolholidays and visits tend to be concentrated into these periods.
Child care will therefore be available for those children before school if necessary, after school if necessary, and in the schoolholidays.
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