[Margaret Pilkington]

Some of the Schools that are already running these schemes charge up to £6 per day for the breakfast club and after school club........and some of these clubs are supervised by parent volunteers.......some by paid teaching assistants.

While I applaud the folk who want to go out to work, I do worry that parents will get less time with their children........and how do you know that the people who are looking after the children in these circumstances uphold your own values.

I know that I was a working mother and I paid for child care and my husband and I did shifts that meant for most of the time one of us was there.