Childcare bubble

[HeyDouglas]

I've had a look at the rules and it doesn't say what work you need to be doing while your child is being looked after by your bubble

I am a SAHM - can my mum come and look after my son while I do my chores for half an hour?

If not, can you tell me why?

Forget the health risk, am looking at the rules online

Obviously it’s paid employment, nobody is stupid enough to think otherwise.
It literally does not mention work at all. It says childcare but does not give a purpose for which the childcare needs to happen. People may need childcare for purposes other than work.

Flouncing off the thread now ignore the trolls OP, you're fine. Use the childcare bubble for whatever you need, there's no law against it. Considering people can still get a takeaway coffee and go for a walk with friends I don't see why you can't have a 30 min break once in a while.

Oh, and you are beyond pathetic if you can't do housework and look after children at the same time.

I believe many parents are 'beyond pathetic' at the moment, that's why a mental health crisis keeps being spoken about.

Just do it if you want OP, I see a lot of people bending rules to keep themselves sane.

We are so obsessed with work in this country, as though anything you don't get paid for is compelled unworthy. When my kids are in childcare I work, I study, I clean, I have counselling, I do life admin, and I attend health appointments. Sometimes I call a friend, or take a quick nap, or box dye my hair, or put on some fake tan, or batch cook. Then I catch up on work in the evenings. Work is the least interesting thing about me, tbh.

Nope you're fine. It's not specified what the childcare has to be for.

My mum looks after my children at my house while my husband and I are both at home either working or catching up on chores quickly. No one who doesn't know what our lives are like has an opinion on that that I would consider valid.

Go for it - my mum comes to me to help fir the day once a week

My BIL does overnight childcare so I can work on sleeping. Shoot me

Not anywhere on here does it say anything about childcare being while parents are at work.

OP, use the official guidelines, not people on Mumsnet who clearly haven't read them nor understand them, to guide you.

Provided you are not using the bubble to socialise with your mum it's well within the rules

www.gov.uk/guidance/making-a-childcare-bubble-with-another-household

Yeah I couldn’t care less if SAHMs are using it to clean or to sit around eating Pringles tbh. I’m just keeping my head down and surviving as best I can and I imagine most people are doing the same

Your mum can look after your child, you don't need to work to require childcare. For instance, my friend recently asked her mum to look after her daughter so she could apply for jobs peacefully which some of you could argue that she could have done it at night time and another time she left her daughter so she could do shopping in Asda alone. If I lived near my mum, believe me I would use it. There's nothing in the guidelines to suggest you can use it for work purposes only.

The actual legislation is here:
www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1374/regulation/5

No mention of why you need the linked childcare household nor what you do with the time. Best to stick to the actual law if we're going to be making definitive, prescriptive statements.

At some point the guidance referred to the purpose of childcare being to enable the parent to work or for "respite". Now it doesn't mention a specific purpose, but the word respite to my mind clearly indicates that if a parent needs a break from their kids for a few hours then their bubble can provide childcare for that purpose.