Free 30 hours and grandparents

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Is there anyway to use the free 30 hours to pay a grandparent to care for your child? My DS turns three soon and my DM looks after him one day a week.

No, sorry.

No I don't think so unless they become a registered childcare provider.

No

www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs?step-by-step-nav=f517cd57-3c18-4bb9-aa8b-1b907e279bf9

Link to the gov advice on who can provide the 30 funded hours. It has to be with 'approved childcare' ie a registered provider

wishful thinking!

no you cant but you can choose not to use the full entitlement, so your child could attend nursery for 4 days and grandparents for 1 day still. However the nursery would have to agree to facilitate this, phone around a couple and enquire about it.

No! need to be ofsted registered

Yes if she registers as a childminder.

www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1164802/childminders-campaign-to-change-rules-on-related-children

Even registered childminders can't offer funded care to related children. And grandparents can only register if they are also looking after other children as well as their grandchildren.

SMaCM is correct. A childminder cannot claim funding to provide care and education for their own child or a related child.

It’s an example of unfair government discrimination against childminders. In contrast, nursery workers can claim funding when they put their own children in at the nursery where they are working.

Childminders have to be qualified now as well in the early years curriculum. They also need first aid, and safeguarding training. They attend meeting to check they are doing everything right and send off their paperwork for each child to be reviewed. Plus they do their own tax returns etc. It’s a business.

They don’t just play and shop all day!

Grandparents who lose out through looking after grandchildren may be able to claim National Insurance credits through the 'specified adult childcare credits' scheme.

Sorry I was confused with tax credits as they can be used if a grandparent is a child minder. Didn’t realise 15/30 hours was different that’s so unfair.

A nursery worker still has to pay to put their child into nursery whereas most of the people I know that use grandparents don't pay them or just provide a nominal amount

Ah well, it was an idea