wermovingtoqatar...is your husband not working here? Or is his salary not enough to take care of his family? If so, you best try to get an expat job while you are in the UK. Locally hired Teaching assistants make, to my knowledge, about 5000 QR in Western schools (you may have to be a native English speaker), and a lot less in non Western schools. At least that is what I have been told.