Plan Holiday Cover Days Against Leave Available — Free
School holidays arrive as blocks; annual leave arrives as days. Subtract the cover already arranged from the days each block needs and watch the running total exhaust the leave you actually hold.
The proof surface
Camp-versus-childcare cards compare the cost of holiday options. This audits the day-count side first — which blocks are still uncovered and when the running demand passes the leave allowance — so the cost comparison is run on the right number of days.
Why the flat version breaks
Spreading leave evenly across blocks
The blocks differ in length and the cover differs in price; even spread is rarely the fix.
Counting bank holidays as cover
Closures often include days nobody is home anyway; count the working days needing supervision.
Planning leave before the term dates publish
The calendar moves; the packet only knows the dates you feed it.
How to work the cover days packet
Half-term, Easter, summer fortnight, the Christmas closure — one row per block, with the weekday days a child needs cover.
Booked clubs, the other parent’s leave, grandparent weeks — confirmed arrangements only.
The days genuinely yours to book after the commitments already marked. Two days is a real household; ten is a different plan.
The packet reports uncovered days per block and flags the block where the running demand passes your leave. Two days of cover needed in half-term and three more in Easter cross a two-day allowance at Easter — that block is the camp application, not the hope.
What the cover days packet replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Spreading leave evenly across blocks | The blocks differ in length and the cover differs in price; even spread is rarely the fix. | Count the cover already arranged |
| Counting bank holidays as cover | Closures often include days nobody is home anyway; count the working days needing supervision. | Enter the annual leave you can spend |
| Planning leave before the term dates publish | The calendar moves; the packet only knows the dates you feed it. | Watch where the running total crosses |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Day-count arithmetic on the calendar and leave you supply. Not childcare, employment or benefits advice; leave entitlement, term dates and childcare funding rules come from your employer, your school and your local authority, and safeguarding concerns go to the proper authority immediately.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the cover days packet: your holiday block | days needing cover | days already covered stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a stapled evidence packet
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the cover days packet reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The cover days packet reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
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Day-count arithmetic on the calendar and leave you supply. Not childcare, employment or benefits advice; leave entitlement, term dates and childcare funding rules come from your employer, your school and your local authority, and safeguarding concerns go to the proper authority immediately.
What this is built on
- Method: The days genuinely yours to book after the commitments already marked. Two days is a real household; ten is a different plan.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: The blocks differ in length and the cover differs in price; even spread is rarely the fix. After: the cover days packet shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this cover days packet, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a cover days packet. Return plain rows only: holiday block | days needing cover | days already covered. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: holiday block | days needing cover | days already covered. No AI response is executed as code.