Cm charges whilst at pre-school

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When I return to work I will be looking for a cm for my 2 children.

The youngest will be 1, and need care 3 or 4 days a week 8-6.
The eldest will be 2.5 years and the same hours but at pre-school for at least 3 mornings a week. Ie. 12 hours. (9-1)

What do cm usually charge if anything for these hours?
I want to try to avoid paying twice but appreciate the child would be in the numbers.

Thanks!

Candykate - children fall into a different age bracket when they start school, so they don't block a space. You might get a set before and after school fee. You might get an after school snack, or tea, or breakfast. You need to ask around for rates and what's included.

Preschool is only free from the term after they turn three though soontobesix

My CM charges me, and it's pretty standard. I don't like it, pocketwise, but I do understand it.

In fact, she charges me even though I do the drop off, because I need the space during the holidays. I get a £10 a week reduction, if all she does in a week is pick up at 12.

It's tough, but CM has a living to make. If they're good, like mine, it's worth it.

The only thing that irks me a little with mine was that she 'won't do' any of the things that would let me leave DD with her full time, which does make a bit of a mockery of the fifteen free hours. They aren't, for me, because I have to pay her to cover a gap she's willfully created. DD isn't at preschool because she needs to mix, but because she needed to move on from toddler groups and finger-painting, and the CM 'didn't want to' do any of the next stage of the EYFS. Were she to, she could claim the fifteen hours on my behalf, and they would, then, be 'free'.

That said, I could have moved my DD from her care completely, and chose not to.

One way or another, though, I understand the logic behind the way she charges.

What is the "next stage stuff" that she wont do?

I was wondering about the next stage stuff. I assumed what she doesn't want to do is the paperwork, because the learning through play isn't hard.

Ginnybag it could be the fact she doesn't get her going rate if she provides the free hours so could be sling a lot of money.

For example I do the 3-4 yr free hours. I get paid £3:45 an hour from the LA.... I charge £4:00 normally. It can mount up how much I am losing. We are not allowed to ask for money to make up the shortfall.

Losing... Not sling for fucks sake!

Yes. The so called free hours are very underfunded.