Is this against Nursery etiquette ?

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Hi guys,

Apologies if this has been asked many time's before.

Would it be bad etiquette to ask my sons fabulous key worker if she babysits out of nursery hours ? He's only been at nursery for three months and it's our first experience of nursery so I've no clue if it's something parents do but someone suggested it to me.

We struggle with support and would love an occasional babysitter but I can't work out if it's rude to ask or not.

I have tried to see if my nursery has a policy on it but they are currently updating them so I can't check.

It’s fine everyone does it,just be discreet as some nurseries don’t like it
My friend employed the k/w as the nanny. Immediately doubled the workers pay

It’s fine. Lots do.

Yes, totally fine. One of my eldest's dd's nursery workers has been our babysitter for years and I know others do it for other families. I personally contacted the manager and asked if there was a staff member she would recommend, which she was very happy to do.

The nursery I work in has a policy to say we shouldn’t babysit for any children attending. It’s not enforced but it is frowned upon.

Our nursery prohibits this and charges an “agency fee” if any of their staff start working for you in any capacity whilst your child attends or in the 3 months after they leave. So definitely worth finding out their policy before asking about this.

There’s something in our contract about this, essentially not allowed but I can’t recall the finer details.

Same here, the nursery policy prohibits it. A few parents get round it by befriending any staff who leave /move to a new nursery and getting them to be their babysitter. The children are still familiar with them but it's not breaking the rules.

Thanks everyone! Annoyingly the policies are not online as they are updating them so I've no way of checking so I think I'm just going to have to quietly ask key worker if it's allowed

I asked my sons key worker if she could babysit when it was his bedtime at our wedding. She was happy to and even had a form so nursery were fine with it

I did it and the nursery were fine with it. DS loved having his KW come to his house and was happy to be left with her.

Ours does this. Like someone else said I just e mailed the nursery & asked if anyone was able to & if it was allowed then they asked which staff were interested. We just had to sign something to say we understood it was a totally private arrangement & nothing to do with nursery.

We did it when DC were in private nursery. Just asked one of the staff we liked she said yes and her rate is X. No problems and worked out well.

Completely forgot to update. Spoke to lovely key worker quietly at a pick up and she was delighted to be asked and said absolutely 😊

Our nursery was fine with it and would put a note on staff notice board.

My son attends a special school and lots of the teaching assistants offer their services to babysit on an evening/weekend or during the school holidays x
It's good because they know the kids and their quirks x

We did it when dc was in nursery and the girl continued babysitting for us for 6 years. It was fantastic as we had no local family and was great to get a monthly night out with dh.