Have any of you done Jury Service?

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I am going to spend 2-3 weeks a my local court as of next week and my DD2 is going to a childminder.
But the other one needs to be picked up from school for 30 min ( I finish at 4) and I have no idea how to claim this ? They pay 64 max a day in childcare but I am tempted to ask the childminder to sign having DD2 for an extra hour so I can pay friends who are picking the other one up.
I can not ask a registered childminder for 30 min a day on the other hand Court will pay unregistered ones £2.50 an hour which is too low to offer my friends.

A bit confused me.

When I did jury duty, there was a daily allowance for lunch, and we would get back what we didn't spend. Perhaps you could take a packed lunch and eat that in the court canteen (there is a place for jurors, protected from the other denizens of the courts), then claim what you didn't spend on lunches there, in lieu of the expenses?

Have a word with the office. The people at my court were really accommodating.

Shocked that you would ask your childminder to lie for you. That is fraud. If she agreed to this she would not be the sort of person I would want setting an example to my children.

Wow!!! the court is ok with people using unregistered childminders?

think being a bit hard on a mum who is obviously stressed..

I am not a bit suprised that the court would pay an unregistered cm.. after all ofsted hasnt yet managed to set any across the board standards for cms have they? each inspection is totally arbitory at the moment...

i dont think the cm would be commiting fraud exactly,bit dramatic...

the whole childcare thing is ridiculous at the moment ..remember gordon brown wasnt too sure of his ground with the two police women sharing childcare!!!!

isnt it a shame that parents cant organise the childcare they need and want for their child without the state interfering all the bloody time..

and yes as a cm I do abide by the rules but they blood well stifle my business and it drives me mad sometimes.. good luck poster..

Which court are you at?
I'm on jury service at the mo and my daughter's at a nursery (I usually look after her myself) but the court are paying for this, although it is a lot less per day than your costs.

The problem is though, they have inconvenienced you so its not fair that you have to spend money you wouldnt normally spend!

Have you tried speaking with someone at the court already regarding this?

PM me if you like and I'll try my best to help!