Does anyone live in London and employ an after school nanny to pick up after school?

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I have a few questions.

Where did you find them? The going rate appears to be £10/hour - is that about right? I presume that is gross with a small amount of employers NI on top? Do you pay for their travel if they need to use the tube to bring the children home?

Nannys are a bit few and far between in my corner of (east) london! Most people here rely on school based after school clubs or local childminders/nurseries that offer a pick up service. Obviously that is less convenient tho as you still have to pick them up rather than have them brought home. Does your local authority have a Family Information Service? Ours has lists of all the childcare providers operating in the area and can offer a matching service. Good luck.

We've gone with a private nursery who pick up from 5 or 6 local primary schools and then look after them till 6. Cost is £12 a day and they feed them as well.

It might be worth looking around your area to see if there is something similar - mine does this till they turn 11 and also takes them in school holidays, half-terms and blooming Inset Days.

£10 an hour sounds about right though. I would probably expect them to have a travel card.

We used a part-time 'nanny' to take my son to school and pick him up from after school club, then pick the little one up from nursery, 4 days a week. She would get home with them around 6pm and look after them for an hour or so until one of us got home. We found her through Gum Tree - she was a university student studying Education and something else, and was only too happy to fit it around her studies.

We have had a series of student ballet teachers who are at college around the corner from my DCs school. Our current nanny picks them up from school, travels home with them on the train and looks after them until 6.30 when I get home. We pay her £10 an hour. She has a student travel card anyway, so we don't need to pay her extra for travel. Works very well. I don't know whether it is something about dancers, but they have all been very reliable and efficient. We found the first one through Gum tree.

Gumtree is usually a good source, though you could try some of the nanny agencies. Just you do get a lot of unsuitable candidates applying through Gumtree I find. I've found that an after nanny role often will suit a mum with a young baby/toddler of their own with the resulting hourly rate being lower to reflect that.

Gumtree for us too, and we have an education student too.

I was just going to suggest Gumtree - a friend of mine found her after school nanny there.

Thanks all. Pyrrah I think you may live quite close to me - could you pm me with the nursery details? Will look at Gumtree. Just going through the nightmare of primary application and need to know there are childcare options that fit!

We've got an after school nanny for just the three days we can't cover. We pay her £12/hr because we really want her to stay, but we don't deal with tax/NI - we leave all that to her because it's so few hours. She's a postgrad student who likes it because it fits in with her other hours and leaves her some time to study, and we found her through Gumtree.

As someone else has already said, if you go that route be prepared to go through a lot of very unsuitable candidates, and check refs/quals/CRB thoroughly.

We have found this to be a much better way to find someone than via the nanny agencies, who do the checks but charge you huge amounts of money for it, and if your nanny then leaves (as ours did when she got a full time job two months later) the agency we were with offered us no recompense and were fully expecting to charge us again to find another one!

Good luck!

Dd just turned 6. Will eventually become independant but for now we are all trying to get to terms with it. Insulin has to be administered before every meal and extra dose given if needed. Needs to have snacks as well, just worried about being in the playground and having a hypo. All sorts of scary thoughts passing through mind.

£10 net, £13 gross, if you are deciding on their hours then you are their employer. It is illegal not to pay tax as an employer. Very very few nannies qualify as self employed ( only if thy say I work 4-7pm, and you fit to that for example, if you are saying you need someone from 2.30pm to get to school for 3, then you def are an employer )

Please be aware of a v heavy fine for not paying your nannies tax ( neighbours at work were fined over £16 000)

You also do need to pay for tube/ bus/ car or any other expenses occurred through work. Otherwise they are paying out of their own hourly rate for something work related

Their are many nannies aroun willing to work after school, not many willing to do it illegally ( if they pay no tax they get no pension, no maternity, no benefits if they need etc)

I had assumed I would be their employer and am fully prepared to do everything properly. However in London I think it is at least possible / reasonable to assume that they have a travel card for their own use and therefore travel with my children would not cost them extra. I have a travel card for my commute, any extra travel for work that I use the travel card for I don't charge my work for, obviously.
I know that £10 net is £13 or so gross, what I don't know is what the going rate is.

Loads of people will use Oyster - esp nannies who usually work locally. Expect to say travel costs.

Opps 'pay' not 'say'

Yes as a nanny my travel costs are low. I only have a oyster card ( work one), which is linked to their account and automatically topped up. I walk to work, and most things are walking distance whilst at work, so some weeks I may use a few times, others none, others everyday. A travel card isn't economical for me/ work

I would say £13 gross is average, maybe £14 as part time. Add a weeks travel card for the zones you will need