Occasional overnight babysitter/nanny - how does it work?

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I'm sure such an arrangement exists somewhere, but I could well be using the wrong terminology, so apologies if so...

Dh is in a band - they play all over the country. Often entails dh driving up to 250 miles & back in a 24 hour period.

He'd like me to come to more gigs (& I'd bloody love to!), but it would mean leaving 3 children aged 6 months - 4 years. Even for the more local stuff, we'd need someone to be there from about 4 or 5pm, give the kids tea, handle bedtime & sleep over in the spare room - we'd be getting back some time in the early hours.

Basically, I'd like to know: how do you find someone for this, & what's the going rate?

Proxy parenting

You could advertise on your local netmums childcare page, try nannyjob, or gumtree, also findababysitter.com are pretty good job/nanny wise.

Ah thank you dynamicnanny! Knew there'd be a phrase for it

Where do you live?
If in London I could help.

indeed there are wonderful peopleout there who do this (me for one)

you can do a 24hr rate - cost varies but around £150/200

or charge by the hour, and an over night fee

ie 4-12pm @ £10ph= £80 plus overnight fee of £30 and then hourly rate of £10 from 7am/when children wake up

so 4pm - maybe 11am, so you get a lie in (if you wanted one) would be 80+30+40(7-11)=150

indeed there are wonderful peopleout there who do this (me for one)

you can do a 24hr rate - cost varies but around £150/200

or charge by the hour, and an over night fee

ie 4-12pm @ £10ph= £80 plus overnight fee of £30 and then hourly rate of £10 from 7am/when children wake up

so 4pm - maybe 11am, so you get a lie in (if you wanted one) would be 80+30+40(7-11)=150

That's really helpful . Thanks all.

We're in W Yorkshire, swlondonnanny, so not terribly handy, but many thanks for the thought!

hello yes this is called proxy parent i actually do this in east midlands and charge £165 per 24hrs (£200 if one child under 6mths or 2 under 2yrs or more than 4 children).

seems to be a popular service.

lindsey