@SequinsAndGlitter
It's actually for me.
I've been asked to do it temporarily.
I'm unsure what to say as a lot of people are saying 'Breakfast club and childminders only cost £5-6 so that's what you should be charging.'
I was going to suggest more like what most of you have suggested but keep hearing different things. I would like to do it as would like to support the mum but don't want to take advantage of her. I have told her my expectations of pay just now in an email but if she is looking at someone to do it for £5-6 then obviously that is not do-able. Especially with the early start and unsociable hours.
A childminder will have multiple children for those hours. I think its 5 children thats their maximum under 5 isn't it?
So if someone's paying £5ph and that childminder has 5 children, once they've paid their expenses they'll have atleast minimum wage left.
What this person is asking is exploitative. I am angry on your behalf.
If they are a friend and its a favour that helps you both out and you're happy to do it, then great, but if it isn't that way, and you're looking at this as a job, honestly you need to be paid more.
When I was looking into having some wrap around care for DD to be in work:
To be at work when I needed to be there, it would have meant someone arriving at my home by 6:30/7:00 depending on my placement.
I'd need DD taken to school which is 7:30 am.
We worked out that it would be only fair to pay £10 as a flat rate for someone to take on that responsibility, but because of the hours being what they are, we would need to double it to not be taking advantage of that person.
It ultimately put me in a situation where for that time I was at a loss for the first 2 hours of my day, but DD would be taken care of by someone who would gain sufficiently to not just fuck it off because it wasn't worth their while at short notice.
Afternoons were payable at a different rate, but 4 hours of work in normal time seemed a fairer deal.
And in our view and experience, totally acceptable to take into account return time from the school run and pay for it.
Please take into account if they're this miserly to start with, that will be a running theme.