How much would you expect to pay for childcare overnight? Or for a full weekend?

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We have a p/t nanny during the week, & she often looks after the dc overnight & occasionally for the weekend.

Because I'm a teacher & don't need her during school holidays, & also because she's been our main childcare provider for several years & has become a friend, this tends to be on a very casual basis - we'll verbally agree eg. that she'll do a Saturday morning until Sunday evening 'in lieu' of the normal hours she'd have worked during a given 'holiday' week.

All concerned are happy with this, but there are occasions when she's not available & so I'm looking for a 'Plan B' person, mostly on websites like childcare.co.uk.

I am having some difficulty convincing dh that actually, we are getting a total bargain from our nanny, & a 'one off' babysitter/weekend nanny might quite reasonably want more £s than she does, to look after strange kids in a stranger's house!

So can anyone give me some estimates please? 3 dc aged 3-7, from say 9am Saturday to 7pm Sunday?

TIA

Well I'm a CM so if I looked after your 3 children for those hours, you'd be charged:

£70 x 3 for overnight care on the Saturday
£72 x 3 for Saturday daytime (based on £8 per hour - I think that's what is in my contracts for weekends, would have to check though as not been needed!)
£88 x 3 for Sunday (8am - 7pm)

So a total of £690 for 3 children - I'm pretty sure you're getting a bargain!!!

I'm sure a nanny coming to your house would be MUCH cheaper than me as they are paid a set amount for the family rather than per child, I'm afraid I just couldn't help you out with nanny figures but thought I'd at least give my figures

That's actually really helpful, looneytune! We are indeed paying quite a bit less than that...it's useful to have a detailed breakdown like that to wave at dh.

Thanks .

I would charge £10 per hour plus travelling time so approx £340, I don't do a sleepover rate just an hourly rate day/night for proxy parenting for up to 4 children.

I charge double time for everything at weekends. Overnight 1800-0800 £140 and £9.20 per hour for all the other hours.

£200 per 24hrs regardless if one baby or many children - may put up rates for 5+ lol

thats £10ph 7am to midnight and then £30 sleepover free midnight to 7am

so in your case £300

much cheaper then looney lol

I charge the same as blondes £200 per 24hrs and cover all of east midlands and warwickshire.

i recently worked friday afternoon to sunday afternoon at a rate of £160 per 24 hours. Many nannies will charge normal daily rate from when your children wake, til bed time, babysitting untill 11 then an overnight fee. I considered this and it would cost £192 per 24 hours (day rate £10, babysitting £8 and overnight £40) but as my charge doesnt wake often during the night, we agreed a figure mutually. Hope that helps.

Once i get lots more experience, perhaps i will start to charge more, but for now im happy with the £160!

Thanks chaps.

We are definitely getting a bargain - nanny does a weekend for £150, which is the same as we pay her for a week of after school care.

She does have her own dc too, & it tends to be that we agree whether she'll be looking after them all at her place or ours, or a combination of the two - she lives a couple of miles away.

This is all adding grist to the mill - I've been patiently explaining to dh that nanny is happy to have the kids for 'mates' rates' because she's known them since they were newborns, they are friends with her two, & actually, she tells me that what amounts to a weekend of sleepover is less work than a week's worth of school run hell.

Dh doesn't quite 'get' that it is in fact a chuff of a lot of hours & anyone coming in on a one off basis would perfectly reasonably charge twice as much or more!