The report, Running around in circles: Co-ordinating childcare, education and work, by Christine Skinner, explores how working mothers rely on informal help from neighbours, family and friends as well as formal support from nannies, childminders, childminders' husbands and out-of-school clubs to transport children between different settings at different times of day.
The private nurseries and school nurseries covered by the research provided no help with transport.
The report is based on a small-scale study of a group of 40 mothers, including 12 without jobs, living in two areas of a medium-sized English city. It suggests that it is not necessarily a lack of childcare that deters mothers from working, but the complexity of synchronising care and pre-school or primary education with work commitments.
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