This isn't the first time my childminder has done similar, so I'm looking for either confirmation that she shouldn't have done it, or to be told that I shouldn't be bothered by it!
Yesterday the childminder had to pick her own child up from school at 10am as they'd had an accident and needed to be taken to hospital. My child is in preschool, and needed to be picked up at 11.45am. Cm made no attempt to contact me, and instead arranged for her mother to pick up my child and one other mindee. (The fact that the mother is not on the school's permitted pick up list is a different complaint!)!The cm's mother took my child back to the cm house and took care of her until 2.45 when the cm returned from the hospital with her own child.
First I heard of this was at pickup at 5.30pm.
Cm and her mom used to be co-minders, but haven't been for over a year and a half. My dc is 3. I've never signed to say that the cm can leave my child with her mom, nor that my child can be driven around in the Mom's car, which is what happened yesterday.
While I appreciate that the cm priority was her own child and taking them to hospital (not life threatening, I'm not heartless!), am I unreasonable to think she should have at least sent me a text to say what was happening and give us the option to collect my dc from nursery ourselves? Has she broken regulations?