Do you charge full time for a child in reception?

[EvesMama]

starting out soon, got my first mindee lined up.shes in nursery with dd at minute but will go into reception in sept ish..so will be there normal school hours i assume?

what should i charge?
just dropping off and after school..all day if im thier first contact in emergency?...discounted rate through day??
am v.confused and want to get this right!

ta girls

When children are at school full-time, I would only charge for the hours before and after school (and definitely not for the time that they are in school).

I am the emergency contact for all of my minded children who are at nursery/school. Parents will always be contacted first but, like nzshar, many of them do not work locally.

Although I have policies in place re. sickness, I am not so hard-hearted that I would leave an unwell child at school for several hours waiting for a parent. All of my minded children have been in contact with each other on a daily basis anyway, so they may well have "shared germs" already!!

All my minding parents know that I would collect unwell children and care for them until someone else is able to get them. They are all happy for me to do this.

so ive gatherd now, i shouldnt be charging for full day but for the hours wokred when she goes full time.
so should i charge more than my normal rate?
bearing in mind this will be my first mindee so dont wanna cock it up?

oh and we move in two weeks, if i contact ofsted at the end of first week in new house(so ive unpacked etc) how long are ofsted currently taking to inspect? and once inspected and ok'd, how soon can i start work?

Our local primary school starts the whole reception for mornings only. So the 4 years olds don't count as over 5s until the half term when they do 10 sessions a week.

So I charge for the whole day for the first half term, while they count as younger children. Once they are attending full time I charge session rates for breakfast club or after school care.

? will have to ask..i know the chhildren going up in sept have been having trial runs of having lunch in school with older kids??..i assumed it meant full days straight away?

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I disagree happymum - I've come across many different ways - guess it depends where you live. My nephew's school does mornings for the first week and afternoons for the second week. On the third week he will start full time.

ok spoke to woman buying house of(shes a CM too) and as shes looked after kids from dd's school before she told me it IS full days in reception straight away!
so itll be before and after school ill be doing it seems?

Oh good, thats straightforward then. Sorry to have confused matters!

no you havent youve all been lots of help cos id have gone in and cocked it up if i hadnt spoken to you lot first!

right, spoke to mum of girl going 'up' in sept and they ARE full time straight away..am just wondering now how son i can get ofsted reg and i may be able to start looking after her part way through summer hol!!.dya think it will take longer than 6 weeks?

good advice..my ear is stuck to phone at mo what with house move and lumpy boob..i just thought someone on here might have been reg recently and be able to give me some idea

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i havent been able to do anything formal yet as we have to have moved house to begin proceeding and we move a week tomorrow!

spoke to CCP and they said i couldnt even have crb checks until we were in
so basically it will be about 12 weeks?

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yes, he know i have to move before we can do anything.
they have CM at minute but she said she wanted to stop minding when she went to reception as too much work (rather not as much money me thinks!)
so im sure shell hang on with her until i get reg, but everything just seems to be on the go slow!