The news this week that teachers from the National Education Union had voted for strike action in England and Wales will have left lots of working parents and carers – and their employers – wondering how they are going to manage if and when local schools close.
While some families may have relatives or friends they can lean on to help with childcare, others may have to take time off...
On 16 January the National Education Union (NEU), one of the trade unions representing the teaching profession, announced its intention to strike. Not enough members of two other unions - the National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Association of Headteachers - voted in favour of taking industrial action.
