Just after a few ideas. Our CM's annual holiday is falling at a very awkward time for us, and I'm not entirely sure we can juggle it between holidays and grandparents. It would be much easier to have some childcare in place for at least a week, if possible.
Most of our local friends have young babies so I'm loathe to ask them for this big a favour. I'm not sure if nurseries will take toddlers for just a week or so? We could try and find another CM (I can ask our CM for recommendations but she is quite new and I'm not sure she has many contacts) for the week. I also had an idea about finding a local childcare student who would come to our house and essentially be a temporary nanny, but again I don't really know the ins and outs of whether that is safe or sensible. We can afford to pay for childcare as we won't be paying our CM that fortnight, but probably not enough to cover an actual emergency nanny.
Has anyone else had to cover something like this? Can I ask what you did, or what you would do?