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Paid childcare

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

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Anyone know a good childminder in Writtle, Essex please?

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Horseyradish · 18/09/2012 11:16

Looking for recommendations please.

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jenduck · 18/09/2012 17:27

waves Can't help you with that but wanted to say hello as we are hoping to buy a place in Writtle soon, it's a lovely village

FWIW, we currently live a few miles away & DS1 has been at The Stables nursery in Galleywood from around 2.2 to 3.8 yrs. We found it very good & one of the cheapest in the area. Feel free to PM for more on that if you like.

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Horseyradish · 19/09/2012 11:07

Hi, look forward to welcoming you to Writtle soon then .

Thanks for that, we have a place at nursery but were wondering if childminder was the way to go? Our ds will be 9.5 months old when he starts at the end of October. How were your children at nursery?

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jenduck · 19/09/2012 16:10

DS1 started nursery just after age 2, going 1 day a week to begin with, then gradually building up to 2.5 days. He has always loved it, but was quite teary at drop-off for the first few months.

I see what you are saying about childminders, it may well be the way to go for a younger baby, so they are in a nice home environment. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience of official childcare at that age (my mum had DS1 one day a week from 11 months until he went to nursery & he loved that).

Hope you find what you're looking for!

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Horseyradish · 24/09/2012 16:01

Thanks for that. It's so hard to know what's best isn't it!

I have a meeting at work tomorrow to discuss my return and flexible hours. Have no idea if they're going to grant me the new part time hours or not...all a bit worrying really!!

How are you?

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Jules125 · 26/09/2012 22:28

My brother lives next door to a writtle childminder. PM me and I'll send more details etc.

mumtomoley · 27/09/2012 12:01

I'm in chelmsford, but my childminder is full. I looked on childcare.co.uk and I remember there was a good one in Writtle (sorry I can't remember the name!) but they finished too early in the day.

DS went into childcare at 10 months, we looked at nurseries and at childminders and decided that, at the age he was, we preferred a childminder. I think it's worth visiting a few to get a feel as we strongly preferred the one we went with to the others.

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