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Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

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CM Club: Parents not wanting to pay for childcare!

5 replies

Booh · 27/02/2006 13:05

My turn to moan!

Have a vacancy coming up, and as I don't have a waiting list for the first time ever I decided to advertise!

Had three phone calls over the weekend, but none of them wanted to pay, now I am not expensive, I am going rate / same as local nursery but one mum who called wanted to pay 1/2 my rate! Have to say that I was a bit rude to the last one as I had had enough!

Did try to explain that I am a professional business and I have overheads just like another business..........but feel like giving up as they are really starting to take the pee!

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lunavix · 27/02/2006 13:13

My friend is having a major dispute with a parent (all sorts of things including unfounded complaints to ofsted) and in his complaint the parent said she was double the price of other childminders....

I was the person he rang first, but with no vacancies I passed him on to her (sorry friend!) and I would have charged the same as her, to the penny. So would everyone in the top 10 on the list.

However he's found someone else and is quoting her prices (£120 a week for two kids under 3 - for BOTH not each) although oddly she's not showing up as a CM! Hmm!

HenniPenni · 27/02/2006 13:16

I wonder if they would have the same conversation with a nursery?

Some parents really do take the P don't they?

Good luck trying to fill your vacancy you never know, they may come back to you.

bfcmdr · 27/02/2006 13:39

Just being nosey but just how much do you charge? I am sure it cant be that unreasonable.

saltire · 28/02/2006 09:48

I get this a lot, i charge £2.75 per hour for each child. I point out to them that this is below the minimum wage, and that they wouldn't expect to work for as little as that.
I used to have one woman, a single mum who got something like £250 a month to help with her childcare, she had a good job, which included a house, and she used to slag me off something awful saying i was only in it for the money, and how could i possibly justify charging so much. BTW I had the child 6.30 am till 6.30 pm four days a week.

There is a lot of help availiable to people for childcare now, although i think sometimes people forget that we as childminders have a lot of overheads like nurserys but we don't have as many kids, or in some cases we don't get as much help from grants etc.

I hope you have luck filling your vacancy soon.

joanna4 · 28/02/2006 18:42

The girl i gave up minding over as i was so incensed at the whole recinding on a contract without giving paying notice did eventually use another childminder i found out.She did the lone parent back to work thing was offered the job didnt fancy it turned it down.After she turned it down she rang the childminder to cancel her and guess what she couldnt pay the notice period despite yet again having it pointed out to her. Childminder has let it go as she would be hit and miss turn up with one made bottle for baby and a tin of sma to make up the rest of days feeds(yes from same bottle).Some people never learn.

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