Childminders Club: Evening childcare rates

[Tan1959]

Do you increase your childcare rates in the evening say after 6pm to mindees who you are minding during the day? if so by how much?

I have a rate of £3.50 an hour between 8-6 but am open 7-7. Outside the core hours I charge £4.00 an hour.

HTH

If a contracted daytime mindee stays later as a one-off, I would probably still charge the same rate as I charge during the day, although my contract does state a higher rate. This is because I am a mug!

Oh yeah, me too! I mean if it's the hours they want full time iyswim

If it regular occurance say til 8pm would you charge a pounds, two, two fifty?

extra that is

My usual daytime rate is £3.50. According to my contracts (and I had to have a look to check!!) - my "anti-social hours" rate is £4.75. I have never ever charged this. When my dds babysit for some of my mindees in the evening, they charge £5.00. If I have babysat instead (dd unwell), the parents have still paid £5.00.

When I used to do overnight care for children who came in the day, but then also stayed overnight, I charged the same daytime rate until the child's bedtime, then charged a fixed overnight fee (a lot less than it would have been if paying per hour), then back to the hourly daytime rate from when the child got up in morning.

I've never taken on a child doing a regular late finish but, if I did, would like to think that I'd charge a higher rate. However, I think I would end up just charging my normal rates! This is going to be of no help to you whatsoever, sorry!!

Thanks Hellybelly and TP - yes it is helpful - I just like to make sure that I am not charging way over what I should be charging iuswim - still being relatively new - I like to be fair even though I have a business to run. In my area, charges vary from £4 - £6ph, my charges are right in the middle. For evening/unsociable hours and weekends, I have always charged the same rate £5.00 but wanted to increase it by £2.50 so just trying to gauge what the norm is

We charge £4.35 an hour during the day until 6pm but as we don't want to offer late care we would charge £10 an hour after 6pm...obviously if a parent is late for a reason, stuck in traffic, problems at work, this will be overlooked, but if a parent wanted us to extend our hours, this would be our rate.

Im with artyjoe on this, i will be charging (when registration cert finally comes) a very high amount after my set opening times. I am determined not to have the p taken outta me. Having said that if its a one off lateness...traffic or the like then i ownt charge anything.

If i ever did agree to an long term overtime agreement then the out of hours time would be charged at time and a half...eg charge 4.20 then after 6 i would charge 6.30

I think it all depends on each individual cm huh