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Mumandkids · 07/06/2024 14:48

Hello.I need to some help with my childcare calculations
Sibling 1.
50h per week childminder is charging 7.50ph. What's the total cost after 30h and tax free childcare.Council pays 8.54ph

Sibling 2
15h per week (after school). Child free tax account 7.50ph(childminder rate).

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Looneytune253 · 07/06/2024 14:51

Cm aren't allowed to do it as a monetary rate so you will likely get 30 hours and pay for 20. I say likely as some cm may also charge consumables on top of your funded space. You really need to ask the cm. Some cm may also have set days/session times for the funded spaces so it may not be as simple as 30/50 hours.

tealandteal · 07/06/2024 14:52

Need a bit more information. Do the children attend all year round or term time only? Does either establishment charge anything on top of charges for hours?

Looneytune253 · 07/06/2024 14:53

Child 2 would be £7.50x 15 (presuming the cm doesn't have a session rate) so that's £112.50 per week. Which would cost you just over £90 per week

WittyFatball · 07/06/2024 22:37

Child 1 you'll pay for 20hr, tax free childcare gives you 20% off. Plus any extra charges.

SheilaFentiman · 07/06/2024 22:44

Don’t forget that funded hours are based on school terms, so if you want to claim all year round, your CM will have to spread it out and will then cover about 22h a week with funding.

jannier · 09/06/2024 20:25

How do you know what she's getting from the LA?(Not that it matters it's hours not money) The rate published on line is the amount the LA get from which they can take 5% then they apply a funding formula so in my area all state provision gets extra to cover staff pensions then all setting with at least one child recieving an EHCP or diagnosed with SEND get a premium, then it's any setting with one child from a deprived area....then the rest is apportioned on flexibility and qualifications so even two childminders living next door to each other don't get the same and get a lot less than school.
The funding is for 38 weeks a year, a setting cannot provide more than 10 hours a day and can choose to offer hours in sessions like 9 to 3. So 30 hours stretched is around 22 hours a week but maybe offered termly stretched so if you leave mid year the setting is not owed money in the summer that could be 13*30 divided by up to 22 weeks (less any weeks they are shut) so as little as around 17.7 hours a week ....
You need to ask her how she's calculating it and take off any funded hours so in summer in my example for say 35 hours care you would pay for 17.3 hours plus any sustainability or consumables fees.

Singersong · 09/06/2024 20:27

I gather you're trying to pay less than £7.50ph for the first child because they're being paid more for the funded hours? If so then no, you can't do that.

Kitkat1523 · 09/06/2024 20:32

Placemarking

cmforfun · 10/06/2024 16:35

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Sorry misread.
£168 a week
£90 a week

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