Taking dirty nappies home

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Our childminder has started asking for us to take soiled nappies home at the end of the day. It started as a temporary thing as she’d forgotten to put her bin out one week but she now wants it to become permanent. She’s a brilliant childminder and if this is normal we’ll accept it, but it seems a bit odd. Do others do this? Thanks.

What the hell?! Never heard of this nor would I accept this

Is she having issues not being able to dispose of them as you need a license if a business? I would ask her why.

A lot of nurseries do this, it’s been a things for years. Also with a a lot of areas moving to three weekly bin collections, I can’t say I blame her for the request tbh.

Our preschool does this (admittedly it's not usually more than one nappy a session)

As long as it's well packaged it doesn't matter does it?

I wouldn't be happy personally. She's a business and nappies are a bit like "business waste" - another example of childminders picking and choosing when being a business suits them and when it doesn't I suppose?
How many children in nappies does she look after? Given that she shouldn't have that many under the age of 3 it really shouldn't be that much of an issue for her to dispose of them.

Could you imagine a doggy daycare asking you take your dogs 💩 home at the end of every day?!

I think fair enough to be honest. For a day nursery it's different because there's a premises, but when someone is looking after your child in their home that means their bins (whether commercial waste or not) are full of stinking shit 7 days a week. Would you want that in your side alley or front garden all the time? I wouldn't, however much I enjoyed looking after the children. Unless she has a massive house and acerage so the bins are stored a long way from the house and garden of course; if it's an urban settting that's unlikely.

Thanks that’s helpful. It is an urban setting and she has a lot of children so maybe it’s reasonable in this case.

I can see it soon being the norm, more and more councils are now trying to claw in more money by charging childminders , pre schools etc, Who put nappies in there bin a very high premium rate for separate bin and for it to be emptied. I can not afford to pay this charge so if it comes in, in my area I too will be sending all nappies home with parents too.

Some councils are starting to charge extra especially now they are clawing covid money back. I put less rubbish out than any of my neighbours if I have to start paying either the rate goes up to all parents to cover the cost or the nappies go home. We are a business and like all businesses costs need to be born by the customer to be viable.

No, but then she only has 2 children so I suppose one with more might have issues. It's pretty grim though, I see the logic behind it but I wouldn't be over the moon.

I would hate to do it, but some days I change 8 to 9 nappies from 2 children and always at least 6. If I'm going to be charged for a commercial bin which has to be clinical waste I couldn't bare the cost myself

Commercial waste cost would be passed on to parents, so childcare costs likely to increase if councils charge.

It is quite a normal thing, but I put the nappies in my own bin (it does get a bit stinky).

A lot of areas are pushing for childminders to pay for commercial waste, some are charging for an extra bin (however that works). I suppose if your in an area that does this she may have had a choice to either send them home with parents or put additional coats into the hourly rate to cover the cost.

Do you have weekly refuse collections? If not she may just not want stinky nappies hanging around for 2 weeks.

Just ask her why, I'm sure she's very approachable and will explain

I'm surprised they're allowed to put business waste in their domestic bins!

Here you just get a bin, as long as your rubbish fits in it, it doesn't matter what's in it (as long as it's appropriate stuff, which nappies are). This may vary, but as long as it isn't causing the CM issues such as having to put seperate bags out in addition to the bin, then not sure what the issue would be.

Some of the comments are pretty comical.
If I had to payout for a clinical waste bin who do you think would actually end up paying for it ? Then factor in where a clinical waste bin is going to be stored.
I haven't had to send home nappies so far but I don't really see an issue with it as lots of nurseries already do this. When you look into the costs of clinical waste and underfunding plus current overheads many settings just cannot afford the cost of it.

Seems a bit weird. Surely she doesn’t have that many nappies a day

3 under 5

Assume unless has none at preschool then all in nappies

What do you ,ran by urban setting

Still needs to meet ousted regs

3 under 5. 6 under 8

Tho some can have 4 if twins etc

I had one little one do 6 dirty nappies yesterday then the 2 year old did 3 so 9 dirty ones in one day.

A childminding setting could technically have up 6 under 5 as an exception nothing to do with twins the rules changed about 3 years ago.

@jannier

I had one little one do 6 dirty nappies yesterday then the 2 year old did 3 so 9 dirty ones in one day.

A childminding setting could technically have up 6 under 5 as an exception nothing to do with twins the rules changed about 3 years ago.

One person can look after 6 under 5.

Blondes yes, but it's not normal, as we have to be able to prove to Ofsted that the care of the children is not compromised by the extras.

Mine doesn't ask us to do this, but if she does I might ask her to switch to reusables. We use them at home, but didn't like to ask her to use them, as thought she might be grossed out keeping soiled nappies around all day till we collected DS.

Wow, is she going to mark each nappybag with the child’s name so you only take home your own child’s poo?

Unusual.....a little weird if you ask me even if charges for waste. I would pay more to the childminder to put it in a bin at their roperty than bring it home!!

@Blondeshavemorefun

Yes technically they can but they have to prove they can meet all the needs and risk assess and it has to be for good reasons like accommodating extra days for existing parents, taking siblings not for new business. In practice most wouldnt and thoes that do probably only for an odd session and older children