How do CMs charge for before & after school care?

[omama]

Sorry if this is a dumb question can anyone explain to me how childminders usually charge for before & after school places (including school dropoff & pickup)? Is it a set fee per day? Or are you charged for the hours the childminder will actually have your child, e.g. an hour in the morning & 2 hours in the afternoon? And what about school holidays?

I'm a cm and have contracted hours for my school children. So, based on those hours, you would be charged a fee for the hours you needed, but would pay if you didn't need me as I would be available for your children to come. So, contracted hours x hourly fee = how much. I wouldn't expect to be paid for any time they were at school between dropping them off and picking up time. Does that make sense?

that's very helpful thankyou Maryann.x

My current childminder we pay an hourly rate and previous one we paid a session fee. I have a term time only contract and I don't pay a retainer o er the hols.

I charge an hourly rate for before and after school. I have different contracts depending on what's required, so one child is term time only and if they need care in the holidays I'll charge it as a one off and only if I happen to have space. other child needs all year round so we work out rate over year and divide by 12 to give set rate.

A set fee for before school, 7.30 -9.00 of £15 and after school min £25, as I charge from 2.45 when I have to leave to get to school for 3.10 pick up, as no schoolies of my own. Full daily fee during the holidays, but I negotiate contracts individually to calculate a fee for the same each mont ver 12 months.

"mont ver" = each month over 12 months!

i charge an hourly rate - some of my parents only want an hours care and i cant bring myself to charge for time they dont want or need.

I dont charge holiday retainers for the same reasons.

I charge £4 an hour.

I dont have any schoolies of my own but i dont charge from leaning home...its only 10 minutes.

I charge a set rate for morning or afternoon. The morning rate works out as pretty much the same as my hourly rate. The afternoon rate is a flat rate regardless of whether they're here 10 mins or two hours. This is because of the space they take up in the car/childminding space.

One of my CM friends charges per hour/half hour and it seems to be an awful lot of after-school stress when many of her mindees are only with her for half an hour or an hour.

When I was minding I charged my hourly rate with a min of 1 hour before and 2 hours after school. These could be on full or term time only contracts and no school hours would be charged for (but obviously you pay for those contracted before/after school hours even if not needed). Most would have their fees worked out over the year and then I'd knock of bank hols and my 4 weeks off and divide by 12 so they paid a set monthly fee.

I always used to have a set rate for school children but I've recently changed to hourly rate with a minimum daily charge. I found a couple of parents only wanted until say 4:45 or 5pm but because my set rate covered until 6pm they would often collect late (sometimes 10 minutes, sometimes half hour occasionally the full hour) & I found it impossible to manage tea times and couldn't charge late fees! So now it's an hourly rate of £6, minimum charge £15 (ie 2.5hrs) for wraparound. I don't charge holiday retainers to my 2 tto children because I prefer to have less work in the holidays to spend time with my own DC.