Grandparents, nursery and childcare dilemmas

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So its now illegal to get grandparents to offer childcare, have I honestly read that right?

We dont want to put DC1 back into nursery yet as we have a newborn DC2, partner will be back at work and I am recovering from a c sec. Parents (healthy!) Have offered to have DC1 for a few hours on my partners 14 hour shift days so i get some rest. It makes sense, all have been getting food deliveries and abiding strictly by lockdown rules.

Its the safest option! But am I right in thinking we can't do this? I know the police have no powers of entry but I'm not usually a rule breaking type. However I need to keep my family as safe as possible including through my c sec recovery and then mental health long term

Parents neighbours are an unknown in terms of busybodyness and whether they would report it

We've been looking after my 2 grandchildren again from this week. My daughter is a primary school teacher and has had to go back to work and her husband has been unfurloughed so no choice really. She doesn't have a childminder because we have always looked after them in the past (she works 2 days/week).

We go over to her house and collect the girls in the morning and she comes to us straight from school to pick them up. They were having their dinner when she arrived yesterday so she came into the house and waited here with us until they were finished. Since we are a household of 3 adults then I suppose strictly speaking she shouldn't have been in our house but since we're spending several hours a day with her children it all seems a bit moot!

OP do what is best for your family make your own risk assessment and act accordingly. Theres absolutely no reason for you to struggle both physically and mentally to appease the opinions of others. My youngest has been going to my DM for a few weeks now when DH went back to work (I have worked throughout).

My daughter had an accident and I had to stay in hospital with her, and now attend twice weekly follow up and physio appointments. I’m not allowed to take my baby and I’m not going to leave her with a random childminder or ad hoc nursery with loads of other children . My mum has her and to be honest I’d take £100 fine on the chin to know she was safe. Mum hasn’t even been to the supermarket and we don’t go in the house. They just play in the garden.

A friend of mine is a key worker and single mum whose hours are 12 - 5 every day. Normally her kids are in after school club but right now there isn’t any.

Her work have refused to let her change her hours to match school hours as her children could have had a networked place and she couldn’t afford unpaid leave for months on end. Her only option has been to use her parents for childcare since this started. Luckily they live close by so can support otherwise not sure what she could do.

Networked = keyworker !

Very true, its worth the £100 to keep them safe for a while