With the summer holidays soon to be upon us, Cotton Traders carried out a survey in order to find out where and how children around the UK will be looked after during this six week period. 2000 parents with children between the ages of 0 and 18 were asked a series of questions on the matter, providing some interesting and varied responses..
- The majority of respondents (44.10%) said their children would be spending the most of their summer holidays at home with non/part-time working parents and 24% said they would be at home with full time working parents on annual leave.
- The main reason for children spending the summer holidays with working or non-working parents is due to convenience (23%) and money (21%) Sadly, only 20% said this was due to gaining quality family time.
- The majority of respondents (37%) said they wouldn’t be budgeting for the summer holidays as they couldn’t afford to.
- Of those parents taking annual leave to look after children, 28% said they were having to take separate holiday weeks to their partner.
- According to the results, the average age that parents think a child can be left unsupervised during the school holidays is 13 years old. (about year 9 at school)
- More families will be taking holidays in the UK (35%) this year than abroad (34%) and of those 23% who said they wouldn’t be or weren’t sure whether they would be taking a family holiday this year, a whopping 66% said it was because it was too expensive.
- Interestingly, 11% of respondents said they wouldn’t be taking a family holiday this year as it is too expensive.
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