weekend childminders?

[Joshuassss]

Is there such a option, I am trying to help a friend find childcare for the weekends she has a weekend job and twins who are two years old, from reading some of the chats on here it would seem they only work mon-fri is there anything else anyone could possibly suggest please

Hi, Some childminders do work weekends - they might charge more for working weekends though. It's worth asking around locally.

Consider students as well who could be an unqualified nanny. May find someone willing to do that.

I would expect that most childminders would not want to be working most weekends. However every childminder runs their business differently so perhaps you might find someone.

I offered weekends at 2 x rate

It was only 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 and worked really well; I wouldn't have done permanent weekends but the occasional one was brilliant fun

I work on Saturdays ... every Saturday. I charge x1.5. I would not work every Sat and Sun but wouldn't mind doing it every now and then.

I work weekends as a nanny. I charge my normal rate

We had a sixth former from a local private school who was 17 who did Saturday mornings and was brilliant. It really helped - she looked after the toddler twins whilst we were either working or in the house but busy or ferrying the other 3 children around and they got 1 x 2 attention from someone who loved children. She wasn't expensive either.

As others have said childminders can do weekends but often charge a higher rate - therefore a nanny may be a cheaper option depending where she lives this may cost around £8-£12 an hr.

As nanny nick says a student may be best option a childcare student from local college or a student teacher from university may welcome the additional income and experience. Maybe employ 2 students to do every other saturday as then if one is sick or on holiday then they could cover each other and also sometimes people dont want to commit to every saturday.

I did every saturday for a family with 4 children under 5 for 7mths whilst we were saving for our wedding as well as working full time mon-fri I only did 10-3 every saturday and actually got into a routine of going - we then cut it down after I got married as they had found a full time nanny for in the week which they had struggled to do so I had done saturdays to give mum and dad the time to do 1:1 stuff with each child as needed.