I'm only asking this because, if you are a mother it's hard to balance work & childcare together unless you have support.
In the UK, the government only give 30 hours a week of free childcare. That means it's 6 hours a day Monday - Friday.
So it means as a parent, unless somebody else will collect your child from school, how will you work 9-5 a day?
You can't work full-time can you unless somebody collects your child from school
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My daughter is starting nursery soon and me & my partner will basically be getting to work 20mins late and leaving 30mins early to do drop offs and pick ups. 😅
My mom will fetch her on the days that she can.

I work full time 40 hours but I work shifts so we use nursery 3 days, I have a midweek day off, I work Friday nights starting at 6pm and work Saturdays. Dad has Saturday and Sunday off x

I work 9-5 Mon-Fri, very fortunate that my work allows me to work from home 4 days a week. So I drop my kids at day nursery, get home work like a mad woman, and then pick them up. The days I go to the office I get in late and leave early but make up those hours on the other 4 days.
I am drowning in nursery fees but my youngests start school next September and it has been worth being broke af for years to hold on to my very secure and decent paid job.

I work 30 hours across 4 days, my lg is in nursery with her hours stretched across the year currently she’s 3 and due to go to school next September my job is in retail which gives me a couple of days off in the week and one usually at the weekend in a variety of shifts my husband works from home and he’ll collect her on my mid and late shifts. When it comes to school their will probably be a lot of after school/holiday clubs as I’m not sure how we’d do it otherwise

30 hours is part time and that's what I do. I'm in a trial at work trying out spreading the hours over 5 days rather than the 4 I used to do so I can get them from school 3 days a week.
The expectation is that you pay for additional childcare around your work. Whats difficult to understand about that?

I work full time but work the opposite days to my child’s dad, so we use our days off to be with our daughter and avoid needing childcare (except for one day a week where our daughter goes to a childminder). But my work times are flexible so when our daughter is at the childminder I’m able to drop her off and collect her and finish the last few hours of work once she’s gone to bed. I’ll be able to do the same when she starts school.

My husband and I both work full-time. We pay $255 a week for daycare and $145 a week for summer camp.

I work 30 hours over 4 days, do 3 days at nursery and we alternate doing drop off/pick up. And my mum does the 4th day. Many others at nursery do the full week and pay to top up.

We both work full time+. My husband works from home and I’m typically working 60+ hours a week.

I work 32 hours over 4 days and that is considered part time , from Jan both my girls with be is nursery 7-5.30 for those 4 days , I live for my Friday off with them when I’m not on mat leave xx