Childminder issues!

[KayReeve]

I am due to return to work on a phased return a few days per week to help get us used to being in the office again.

My childminder tells me today less than 2 weeks before my son goes back there for the first time since March that apparently she is ‘not allowed’ to look after my son on the days I will be working at home. How does this make any sense at all? And surely this isn’t the official guidance being given to childminders?

Its been a huge struggle working full time at home and having my son but now my childminder is opening again I don’t understand why she thinks this is common sense. And she will expect to be paid on those days too.

@Maryann1975.
The guidence is very hard to follow you have to read through reams of it all undated and coming from different sources not alk the latest even the likes of Pacey and Childcare.co.uk have given conflicting advice on some things and the LAs are varying just becouse you feel on top of it does not mean everyone does. If only the relevant bodies would date each new guidence and highlight the changes everyone would find it much easier...and then there's the conflicting advice like we can't go out with more than 6 in a group...but later we can for childcare and education and the DFE not realising we don't just work with EYFS but can have over 5s and over 8s so our normal ratio could be 3, 6 or 12. If we get if wrong we're not insured but the regulatory bodies can't tell us for sure what is right.

My son is 2 and she only has one other child at the moment, the maximum she is happy with is 3 kids

Weird

I would call her. And ask why

It sounds like she is continuing with the guidance that said 'if a child can stay home, they should stay home'. How would she know which days you are working at home/in the office, unless you tell her? I don't ask my parents where they are working each day (even though I often know by the way they are dressed).

I don't ask my parents where they are working each day (even though I often know by the way they are dressed).

OP you are just going to have to dress in office clothes to drop your child off or pick them up in office clothes. Then just say to your childminder you have to go into the office every time you drop your child off.

I've changed jobs since I started my LO at the CM and work at home randomly anyway. There have been occasions when I've gone into the office part of the day or for other reasons have changed my clothes by the time I've picked up my child.