question for any childminders

[girlygirl]

hi, I've just moved to outside Edinburgh and I need childcare for only 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. Does anyone know if a childminder will do these hours and will I be charged for an afternoon or for 3 hours? Also I need dd to have lunch included, if you were working for only 3 hours would you expect to be paid extra for lunch or include it in your 3 hours fee?

thanks for ALL advice.

hi

im not a childminder, but just wanted to say cm's i have used charged per hour (mine was £2.50) and i took a packed lunch for dd's

not necessarily sandwhiches, if i took a potato and cheese cm would make a baked potato, or a flask of soup or a couple of eggs and she would make scrambled eggs

every week i would also give her a couple of pints of milk and a bottle of squash

hth

It really varies. Your best bet is to have a look on the childcarelink website and ring round a few local cm's. Everyone is different, some will charge by the hour, others will charge the whole afternoon. Some provide meals, sometimes at an extra cost, sometimes included in their hourly rate and others ask you to bring a packed lunch.
Sorry, not much help really!

Ditto what HappyMum says!