How much childminder after school

[purpleme12]

How much does yours cost?
And where and does in include food?

She had an adult meal at a restaurant today. So her appetite is good.

In my experience most children don't drink at school so by 3 they need a good few cups of water. I also know children at home don't stop eating but with their friends they are not board so don't

How old is your daughter?

£5 an hour round here not including food. NW England. We use the school link club though which is £13.50 and includes dinner.

So every time she eats and says she's hungry, even when we're doing something, she's bored?
I can believe there might be times when that might be the case but no, not all the time in general

£12.50 afterschool pick up and a hot dinner, 3-5.30pm. In the northwest

In year 4

No but she will be more hungry if dehydrated and kids ask for food as something to do ....like we cruise the fridge or larder ....the more you eat the more you can eat as your stomach stretches. Is she still hungry and willing to eat fruit/veg sticks

Yes I get £1.80 up to £3 doesn't seem a lot but when your struggling that's another £30 or so a month to find....assuming you get 85% in itself that would be a fair chunk of a food bill. Have you looked at sights like too good to go and olio

Yes she eats carrots and fruit lots.
But I was simply stating that her appetite is big.
Which is true.

Ours is £15 for 2.5hrs in central Scotland, no real food just a small snack.

Can you pay with tax free childcare, that will save 20%.

No as she's claiming uc

We're near Nottingham so East Midlands and our childminder charges wraparound per day so drop off from 7:30 until they get taken to school
Collection is from school (3:30) and collection up until 5:30pm
Breakfast is toast and jam or marmalade if the kids want it, no charge for that
After school there's drinks and biscuits and for £2 they can have their tea there if they want but I collect mine by 4:30 so they have tea at home but it's nothing fancy - things like pasta, hotdogs etc but it's one thing per night the childminder emails a list out for the month with menu's on it and you have to Pre-book the food so she can get it in and not have any waste which I totally understand.

Sorry forgot the key information it's £15 per day wraparound so that is before and after school

She charges per day as she says she'd struggle to find kids who only wanted just before or just after and not both so made the decision to do it this way.

£15 is still less than this and that's more hours ☹️

East Midlands here. £5 an hour, collects from school at 3.20, I pick DS up at 5.20pm. So £10 a day and Includes an after school snack but not dinner

Should add that until Jan this year it was £4.50 an hour, it has increased due to cost of living and to align with other local childminders pricing.
I also use the gov tax free childcare for 20% saving as DS goes 5 days a week

Refill their water bottles 2 or 3 times? Lots of school water bottles hold 600 or 700ml so that'd be over 2l of water between 9 and 3.30 - way more than is necessary! Children would spend the whole school day on the loo.

£8ph, So 3-6pm £24.

Most bottles I collect are 300 to 400 and are the only drinks they have all day including at home

My class must have unusually big ones. They are definitely getting bigger. The children also drink 150ml at lunch.

When I look on there there either isn't any that we can walk to (don't drive so can't pop in car for 5 minutes), or it's sold out the feasible ones.
But I guess it's worth looking again

I've just measured the water in her water bottle out of curiosity. Is 700mls.
She had a slightly smaller one years ago so I guess it depends what you buy

Recommended intake is around 1.3 letters a day at that age so just under 2 full bottles of 700 ml is it empty? Does she drink other fluids?

But are they emptying them? I've had many children bringing home full drinks bottles for 20 years from various schools few empty or even do more than take a few mouthfuls ...and are schools expect parents to send that bottle for lunchtime too. The bottles are kept on the sides and children have to ask to get them which they rarely do ...or are only allowed at breaks so two or three times a day they get to either have a decent drink or go play and opt to wet their mouths instead.