this is helpful to many people but ultimately it will be tough on the children.

I’d be happy with weekend day care, as I work weekends.

I’d love a short notice day care centre. Where you can still go to work if you only get a days notice.

It is a good idea for parents that need it and work late hours.

Think it’s great for parents who do shift work. Whether a child goes to day care or night care doesn’t make much difference I think, as long as the child isn’t in care all the time…then an alarm bell needs to go off.

For parents who both work shift work and shifts sometimes clash it is ideal.
At night your children would normally be asleep anyway Grandparents often love having their grandchildren for a few hours, in fact I know of one who has asked to have the little ones, but are not keen on having them at night in case they wake up unexpectedly and they don’t hear them call out or cry. There may only a couple of hours between them being left and other other parent picking them up on the way home. The pay for night shifts are higher and people have to work less hours to make the same amount of money so in actually fact they spend less time in childcare.

I think it’s great as someone who has small kids and has worked shift work, you cannot assume the kids are missing out there are pros and cons to EVERYTHING some shift workers get more time at home days at a time even though their working days may be longer. And for those who are single parents or don’t have family support it’s great, we all need help. We don’t live in a 9-5 world anymore.

This is very sad. I understand that with the rising cost of living parents need to work all they can to keep up, but how very sad for the children.