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hi
is anyone doing the early years entitlement for clients? if we are childminders we dont usually have term dates?
how do you make up the difference in money, i charge £5.00 per hour and this only gives £3.45!!!!! i wish i had never offered to do this for my client.

any help greatly appreciated

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erm...you lose money - you are not allowed to ask for a subsidy for the low amount the Gov/council gives you

but if i put my rate up to cover or charge for meals? i cant loose money

Katymac is right, you lose money as you can't ask the parent to make the difference up.

This is why most childminders will not offer it - I know I won't - I would be £2.05 down per hour!!!! And I can't afford to lose that money

There is a new thing coming called the single funding formula - which will be better for childminders than it will for Nurseries - but we aren't sure when it will arrive

My local FIS was saying to parents that they can use just the 2.5 hour entitlement and not send their child for any additional hours. Pre-Schools in my area are often deciding that the session length is 3 hours / 3.5 hours and then setting the fee for that last .5/1 hour very high. Referred to as a Topup-Fee but those are not legal, thus FIS was telling parents they don't have to send their child for that extra .5/1 hour.
As a childminder with an hourly rate of more then the amount you get from the scheme, you will lose out. If you upped your hourly fees, then you would need to do so for all clients, or it may be seen as rather unfair - though I'm not sure if it would be illegal... as I can't imagine there is anything that says you can't charge different clients different amounts. May make things difficult though if a parent being charged a higher fee ever found out that you charged other people less.

Thats why I won't offer it!!!!

I don't do childminding for a favour, I do it to earn a living, and every penny I earn is flipping hard work. I spent 3 hours today at a toddlers xmas party with 3 children under 18 months they all needed their nappy changing,TWICE!!!!! roll on xmas I get 2 weeks off.

The single formula means (in our area) we will get £4.95 an hour

i know lots of cms doing this but they all insist parent pays the difference. regardless of any laws!

My CM just used to tell me how much she got each half term and I deducted this from what I owed her.

No idea if this is legal but seemed sensible straightforward and fair to me.