Childminder contract issues...

[Munchkin2212]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me.

My childminder being unreliable and unprofessional, i've decided to give my two weeks notice to my childminder. I told her that i won't bring my child during the notice period.

Now we have a dispute over the notice period. She wants her 2 weeks notice period to be paid for if I take my child or not. She is threatening me to take legal actions.

However i'm arguing the point that the contract says that she will discuss alternative childcare arrangements for me, which she never did as I have all conversations recorded by text. She was sick during every school holidays. She denied me access to babys days so i can't access any paperwork. My baby came back with a bruise one day, she didn't even mention it to me, I had to confront her about it the day after and chase her about the accident form which she filled in at the end. Please advise.

thanks

Yes, you have to pay for a notice period - that's what the notice period means.
If you google contractual notice period, you'll get a more through legal explanation.
Children do sometimes get bruised and the childcarer doesn't notice, I'm sure its happened to you and your child before, as a one off its understandable.

I'm afraid yes you do need to pay the notice period unless she or you have done something the warrants immediate termination which I'm afraid being unreliable & an old issue about an unreported bruise don't constitute. I'd save yourself the hassle & stress of legal action and just pay up & move on to someone better.

So the CM doesn't want to give into your silly demands and now you are going to make stuff up about her that could tarnish her business because you don't want to pay what you are contractually are obliged to... Before you ruin somebodies life by starting rumours just pay up and leave!
Ofsted say 90% of their complaints are parents who don't want to pay so are ruthless enough to make stuff up and risk somebody else's business... Get over yourself

If the contract states 2 weeks notice then that is what you have to pay....regardless of attendance.

Gosh people really do try everything!

Yes you have to pay the notice period. And two weeks is actually very generous, usually it's 4 weeks.

Thanks for your comments, it seems like I will have to pay. Dukketeater don't jump onto conclusions about me. There are not rumours but facts. You don't know anything about the bruise, how it happens and how she dealt with it. The safety of my child comes first.

Being a childminder myself, she sounds completely awful and very unprofessional. BUT I'm afraid you do have to pay any notice period, if you don't her insurance company will take you to court for it. It's minders like this that give us a bad name!

And I'm not saying you have but as other posters have said, parents will make up all sorts so they don't have to pay. For the record, Ofsted won't hold up any complaints if it has anything to do with payment issues, best just to pay up.

Yes, sorry. I agree with the others. She has perhaps been unreliable and unprofessional, but nothing so major as to terminate without notice.

Not all CMs are like this.

Just pay up and leave.

I've had to take the last two school holidays off due to my own injury and child sickness. I do hope my parent aren't bitching about me!

Course you have to pay the notice period. That's what it is there for regardless if you send your child

Bruises and bumps happen

yep. pay up.
You're lucky.most cms including me have 4week notice period.

Yes, you have to pay the notice period. Mine is eight weeks, as are the local nurseries, so be thankful!