Advice about nannies

[Janoschi]

Hello

We're faced with a childcare issue in a few months. By then we'll have a 16 month old DD. We run our own business and we're about to get very hectic for 6-8 months. We need someone to look after DD while we work.

Ideally we'd want that person to be on our premises, as we work 8am-8pm every day and I'd not want to leave DD for that long at a childminders.

Question is, what's the going rate for this? Any ideas at all?

Many thanks!!

It depends on where you live. If you have room for a live-in it should be much cheaper than live out help.

Hi, it depends where you are based as obviously the further south you are the higher the rates are. Also, it depends what requirements you want your nanny to have eg qualified, first aid trained etc and obvioulsy this changes the rate for this.
Perhaps you could ring local nanny agencies and ask them what the going rate is for your area.
As a nanny myself in the North East i get £10 per hour and I don't work as late as 8pm.
I hope this helps.

hi have a look on the nannies section - there will be some useful threads- you might want to consider a nannie share to bring down the costs

Thank you - didn't know there was a Nanny section!

Sorry for posting this in the wrong place!