How much is government paying childminder for 15hrs childcare?

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i pay £60 per day with a really caring childminder and this includes food and snacks from 8-5pm. I think this is very reasonable for the area and my child is happy.

we should be getting 15 hrs free childcare for our 2.5yo from April which I think my childminder will accept but I've seen online that childminders get £5ish per hour per child. If this is correct our childminder will be making a loss and I really don't want that to happen and I don't want her to suffer financially.

can anyone tell me what the position is? I don't want to make my childminder feel awkward by asking her but if she is going to be worse off I'll just pay £60 per day because I don't want to cause her stress.

Just ask how it will work when your DC gets their 15 hours. She will have had other children presumably who had their 30 hour entitlement and will know what she needs to charge.

Ours has said that we’ll need to pay the difference between what she’ll get and her usual hourly rate, which seems entirely reasonable.

Hi everyone, thanks for the replies. I'm going to have a chat with her and see what she says. I'm more than happy to make up the difference so hopefully it works out for her and isn't too much hassle.

It varies a lot depending on area. I looked up our LA payment so I could work out how much was fair to give our childminder for “extras” and found out she charges less than the LA amount!

Wow what region is that? Or is she way cheaper than others?
The LA rate is not what she's paid, schools get more, then the settings with an Sen child then deprivation the council takes their cut up to 5% too.

London - but one of the cheaper boroughs. She wasn’t that much cheaper than others locally but definitely on the cheaper side.
Are the published early years funding amounts not the minimum? And then school settings get more? Because there was a FOI request in my borough on exactly how much is paid to all the different settings in the area and that tallied up with the amounts published