Argh what do you do if there's no after school club and no CMs collect from the school?

Whence needed a childminder we went down to the mum and baby groups months in advanced and let people know we were looking. (There was no mums of the actual child at these places, should be called childminder and mindees social club.

I rang up Social Services and they sent a leaflet with all the names and numbers with registered child minder in my area and we worked our way through that. Childminders appeared to be full bit once September came there was a big change as the childminders often lot kids as they went to different schools or needed different hours of care.

I know 2 people who resorted to illegal childminding arrangements. Good luck.

Quite often there are adverts at my DCs school for someone to do the school run for children. If you got someone they could drop your DC at a child minders, its a very easy way for a SAHP to earn a little bit extra.

OP have you asked any if the CM's if they know of someone?
I always do my best to pass on other CM numbers to parents who I am unable to accommodate.

Someone said afterschool clubs aren't childcare

We're not talking about activity clubs we're talking about childcare clubs

I tried to rely on the fact that football club was on Monday's until 4.30pm but it often got cancelled or moved to a different day

So I had to get my kids into aftersch club at £10.50 even though they were at footie & only at aftersch club until 5pm
So £10.50 for 30 minutes & they had missed snack time
pain in the arse!

Have you joined childcare. co. uk?? It cost me £20 for membership and I posted an advert detailing what I wanted - I had a really good response and interviewed 6 cm's and went for the one most suited to us - she is a godsend and is worth her weight in gold!!!

I suggest being pro-active, I found 2 excellent childminders by advertising on the school's notice board in the playground - a line about your 2 gorgeous children needing a CM and got brand new childminders who were delighted to start which guaranteed business. I live in an area with lots of CMs and that's another problem is if there is too much choice!
Your school might have a newsletter or regular email as well. Childminding seems to suit people at a certain time in people's lives - so you can't anticipate who might be interested - the grapevine will be alive!

FIS is Family Information Service. It might be called something different in your area but it's basically the local authority's list of all registered childcare providers. Not all want their details on the tinterweb so calling and asking for a printed copy might prove more fruitful.

....... You get something sorted!!!!

The nursery I used had a before and after school club and they took the children to school and collected them in a minibus so it might be worth checking with nurseries.Although if nurseries are too expensive for your baby you do end up dropping and collecting children at two different places.

Hope

Or you embrace being a SAHM! Not being "stuck" at all- a very valuable thing to do.

Or you get stuck as a childminder!

My children's school has no wrap around care. Therefore, I'm stuck as a CM now both mine are at school. No wrap around care means
A. I can't look for full-time work (outside the home) as although family will look after them I won't ask them to do it full time.

B. I will feel guilty if I do pack it in and I leave 4 families in the OP's predicament (as there's only 2 other CM's who cover the school both quite busy).

Our school doesn't have an after school club, but one of the clubs based at another local school does do pick ups from there. Speak to the school, you might find they have a similar arrangement. It just means you have to pick them up from a different location.

You get stuck as a SAHM

We were in the same situation and this was one of the reasons we opted for a free school 12 miles away vs the village school 3 miles away. Sorry not to be more help.

vest afterschool club in this context is wraparound care and absolutely is a form of childcare. Op's not talking about choir or sports clubs run by teachers, she's talking about an afterschool club which is a registered form of childcare and paid for in the same way as you pay for a childminder or nursery place.

I really feel for you op. I had a similar problem at one of dd1's primary schools but managed to find a cm who was willing to take her as she had a child who was starting at the same time as dd1. I didn't know what we were going to do otherwise, we tried every cm in the town, and even a couple in surrounding villages. Have you tried asking the council? They'll have a list of registered childminders and people who are in the process of registering, even if they have no online presence. My current cm isn't online but I found her by word of mouth.

A local nursery does drop offs and pick ups for several of the local schools and runs an after school club until 6.30. They also take babies in a different room. Are there any nurseries offering a similar service near the school?

After school clubs are not meant to be childcare.

Sorry to be dim but what is FIS?

But who is looking after the baby at the moment ? Are they both in nursery?

Start an after school club! With the profits from that and a breakfast club, plus the childcare savings, because you'd have to give up your job, you'd be right!
If I didn't have my mum to help I'd consider something like that.