What do nannies charge, roughly?

[xfabba]

I have found a nanny to pick my child up from school twice a week. She has no formal qualifications and is not ofsted registered but is a friend of a friend, has children and has been nannying at the school for a number of years for 2 other famillies. Has provided them as references.

She is charging £8 per hour plus 40p a mile one way for school pick up. This sounds reasonable to me? How does it compare? We are in South East.

She is probably talking net. You will want to work out your total cost based on that net figure.

Have you got her all to yourself, or is she looking after other children too (which is a nanny share and you would expect to split the cost)?

She will have her own child there both days and picks up another child on one of the days and she does a third family on a day I would not be involved in. No mention of gross or net or splitting cost.

She sounds a bit more like a childminder than a nanny. Does she come to your house, cook for your child, put him/her to bed? Can you choose where they go and what they do with their day?

You might want find out how other people pay her and how much.

if she has other children, i dont see why you should pay £8ph, as well as the other family prob paying that

if you are sharing her attention, then you should share her wage, normally 1.5 times an hour - so £12, so both famillies would pay £6

40p per mile is the norm

She sounds like a childminder, and as such would be working illegally if she's not ofsted registered.

A nanny works at your house and is under your control. Nannies also don't 'charge', you negotiate a salary to pay them and you are their employer.

tech i do charge - my hourly rate is £10

agree be interesting to know whose house they will be in, hers, yours or other childs - if i had another child cared for in my house ( as in your house) then i would want to meet their parents and child before agreeing to it

All would be at her house so I agree, sounds more like a childminder. hmmmm

if at her house then she needs legally to be registered as a cm,but if she has no quals and isnt ofstead reg then this wont be possible for a while, but yes you would pay her cash and she would sort out WHEN she was a proper cm

£8 is a lot for a cm to charge per child

what is more normal for a CM per child?

I pay £3.25 an hour to our childminder.

flowerybeanbag

I set the rate that I "charge" as I am a self employed (maternity / ad hoc) nanny

phraedd yes as a self-employed ad hoc person you would 'charge'. But a regular, 'normal' nanny is an employee and personally I wouldn't describe it as 'charging'. It's a question of what salary someone is willing to accept, but I don't see salary paid by an employer as a charge.

But that's neither here nor there, it sounds as though this particular person is an unregistered childminder.

If you don't need early starts, care in your home, or the flexibility to define the activities during the childcare, then I would think a childminder is the appropriate care for you. Have you tried putting your post code into www.childcarelink.gov.uk/

You might find a more economical and more suitable (not to mention legal) arrangement.

In my area (Surrey/Berkshire border) a nanny would expect to earn £8-12 Gross per hour. A childminder would charge £4.50-£5 per hour, per child - though may have a set session rate for an after-school child.

Agree with others that this 'nanny' you have found is actually very likely to be acting as a Childminder and if any of the cared for children are under the age of 8, and the care is provided for over 2 hours in any day, then they are an illegal childminder.

think she may be a bit dodgy however nice she is.

it would be ok for her to nanny share and have your child at the other childs home or vice versa and spilt the cost between both families so if she got £10 net an hr that would be £5 net each.

I think £8 an hr net is alot for an unqualified nanny in the south east.

my sister qualified and with lots of babysitting and sole overnight care experience was only on £6 net an hr for 2 little ones under 15mhs (there was 10mths between them) and she is in sussex.

lindseyfox/nannynick (or other nannies/clever people) can you come and help me out on related question on my other thread

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xfabba sorry for shameless hijack

so xfabba - what are you going to do?

No problem, good to hear other peoples experiences too.

TBH, I am hacked off with the whole bloody thing as I have been trying to sort something out for weeks. Next term I am going to go with a temporary solution of him going back to his old nursery for a couple of hours.

This discussion has clarified for me though that I don't want or need a nanny as such - it's not for me. Ultimately I think a childminder would do the trick so I am going to look for one through the official council pages etc in the NY.

what did you tell the "nanny"

did you mention anything about what was said on here ? it being illegal etc