Do you use childcare.co.uk?

I have found all my jobs through the site. I guess it's down to location location.
(I'm in the north) I don't find it quiet.
On the review front, I don't have any, yet I've worked with 3 wonderful long term families. You will find genuine people on there. Also depends on what you are looking for, vice versa

Oh yes i agree jannier I’m sure all companies have the occasional fake review.

I've got brilliant reviews but I do know some who have been given fake ones as I said above....some people are just nasty. I think if you can prove it's a fake review it should be removed. ...but that's the same on all sites like holiday ones

I've had some after school nanny jobs from there in the last two years but came across Care.com and my housekeeping/nanny job is from there.

My daughter used it and found a wonderful childminder on there. She gave a genuine excellent review when her ds left her to go to school. So not all reviews are fake.

I use it, I found my childminder on there. But struggled to find a babysitter recently, I found one on Facebook in the end.

That's strange they never remove childminders reviews there are some where people have complained about childminders they have never used like I asked for 2 hours care a week and the cm said no.

@Blondeshavemorefun

thank you!!

I don't know if it's a con con or if it's 'just' a Pressure to pay for membership. Either way it's rather rubbish!!

@AutumnNanny yes they send emails saying they did

I'm not sure if a con or not

Will send you a message

Had a very bad experience on there, woman walked out leaving my 2 year old in the house alone to have an argument that turned into a physical fight with her boyfriend on the street outside my house.
Got home to find a neighbour I only vaguely knew looking after my child.

I left an honest review about my experience and the review was deleted when she complained (I know she did, she sent me a foul email telling me she was getting it removed).

My review was factual and polite.

Wouldn't use that site ever again and I tell anyone looking for recommendations that they can't trust anyone on there because the reviews are fake.

I found my last nanny job on there but agree that it is pretty quiet now and some days I don't even bother looking.
I tend to use bubble now as prefer working for various families on a range of different jobs. With that said, their 25% take off fee for every new family you work for is a big down point.

@Blondeshavemorefun

Thanks. I'll have to check it out. Thinking back it might have been a msg from CC saying she had tried to message me but couldn't as I'm not a Gold member. So I assume she's not paid to message either & CC we're just trying to push me into signing up for Gold Membership. It's so expensive though.

I'm totally in denial about moving on ... I'll consider the Gold Membership Monthly when I get serious about looking. Even then, not sure it's worth it!!

If they send you a message then they just have paid to send /receive

So you should be able to reply to their message

I'm a mn and last few weeks I've had a few messages and haven't managed to do any due to being booked

But I took their details and got them mn who weren't busy

I'm on there, as a nanny who works in the South West. It's so quiet, there are no families on there at all these days!! I guess because of COLC? I don't know where else to look for work, except through agencies.

Most childminders will take it otherwise come September when it's from 9 months old there will be less business.

That’s good it’s included! I came across quite a few profile with very little info which put me off straight away.
The pool of childminders I know isn’t huge but the ones I know of who aren’t accepting it have stated it’s because they couldn’t afford to operate if they did. I assumed this was a National thing but happy to be corrected if not.

We recently found an absolutely brilliant childminder on there. Coincidently, she was recommended in our sensory group 2 days after I found her profile on there by 3 different mums and we luckily managed to secure the days we wanted. I think a lot more people are choosing nurseries for September as they’re offering the new funded hours and not all childminders are.

Yes I can't make any changes or I have to change my picture so availability is 3 years out of date.

Yes we used it for our first childminder, who was great until she had to quit.

We fell victim to the ‘local facebook recommendation’ where childminders’ names were coming up and it turned out to be mates recommending eachother.

I'm in the SE, it used to be great.

There's barely anything on there now and I'm fed up to the back teeth of this new trend where parents don't actually tell you anything about the job! Literally tick every box & that's all.

my position is being made redundant so I need to start looking for a new position, but the Gold Membership is daylight robbery. Given I can't reply to messages parents send me, I'm guessing parent charging has changed too.

The only parent with a profile was 'interesting' but I'm not looking after a 2 year old & baby twins for £15 an hour!

This may not all make sense outside of my head, by this time on Friday nights I'm a wreck!

I think when I'm out especially working it enables strangers to identify me ....if a parent is banned from contact but finds my profile they could hang out near a school and follow me home and wait for their child to arrive. I refuse to update my profile or use my proper name. My profile is the Ofsted logo.