Nurses claim schools failing to help key workers due to opening hours issue

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Schools in some areas are not opening long enough to enable nurses to do vital 12-hour shifts.There is no uniform policy around the country, with some neighbouring councils offering different arrangements.In South Lanarkshire, schools are open 9am to 3pm, which leaves nurses struggling to find childcare.Until recently, a nine-fo-five service was offered but that has been cut back from this week.One nurse and his wife have been forced to do opposite shifts to ensure their children can be looked after.The nurse works 12-hour shifts on a high-dependency ward in Glasgow Royal Infirmary.

His wife works on an intensive care ward in the same hospital.Before the lockdown, they relied on breakfast clubs and afterschool clubs as well as friends and.