Dropping child back at home after the full day - Cost?

[jellyjelly]

Have had an enquiry for full time care (dont have all the info yet) but would want me to drop the child back to their house at the end of the day they didnt say why just that they would prefer it.

Any idea on the pro and cons of this before i agree, it could mess up the early evening if it is too late but any others?

Any idea on cost to charge?

Hello

I do drop off two before/after school girls to there house at about 6.30pm SOME nights, but you have to think about a few things.

Do you have other children at that time as you will have to load them into the car, coats etc and then maybe drine in rush hour traffic? I charge £5 a time (and the time that it takes) that I have to drop them off, but I do have a 20 mile round trip!

Do you have to get your own children to bed, do your own dinner, paper work, tidy up etc etc in the evenings!

For using the car I charge 40p per mile (ie 10 miles from your house to theirs costs 20 miles x 40p), plus include travelling time in your childcare fees. Problems could be
-if no-one is home when you get there (even if they work at home they could go out for meeting/dentist/shopping etc)
-if the only person home is some distant relative from Australia and not on your authorised person list
-if you get stuck in traffic do you charge overtime
-if roadworks cause a diversion, ensure the parent has agreed to pay the extra mileage.
-you're not at home if any other mindies parents arrive early to collect them
-you can't take on any more mindies than you can fit into your car
-have ALL your mindies parents given written permission for you to transport them in your car, in the future a new parent might refuse permission for this (I had one mum that wouldn't even let her dh drive her kids)
-aa/rac/etc policy in case of breakdown? Are you covered if your vehicle breaks down at/near home?
-what if the child becomes sick & needs to go home early, can parent collect early or can you drop off earlier in the day?

Although there are potential problems, a colleague of mine does a lot of pickup/drop offs & says in practice he's not had any problems & its a "nice little earner"

Yes booh i have my own family to look after so i know i would have to get them in the car but i thought i would ask others about it before i commit as i am prepared to turn the work down if necesary.

I knwo it could only be a couple of miles at most so at 40p i dont think it is worth it.

Actually I would be annoyed if I thought my childminder was providing a taxi service to take other kids home and mine were going along for the ride. I accept it happens to get them to/from playgroup/nursery/schooletc and have no problem with that but just so somebody else doesn't have to bother collecting their own children and so its a "nice little earner" for the CM - I don't think so.

Just to add that I only ever have DD when I take the children home, I doubt I would do it if I had others as Bozza pointed out other parents may not like it!

I would still only have my own ds not others.

I've collected or dropped off children on odd occasions if there's a good reason for it (such as parent home sick), but only charge for any extra time if appropriate. I don't charge petrol costs because I always put that on my tax expenses.