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How much per hour for one-to-one helpers please?

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SleepyJess · 02/05/2006 13:52

Our church have offered to pay for a one-to-one for DS so he can attend the church holiday club fir 5 days (10 hours total) in the summer hols.. but I am unsure how much it will cost. I think it's about £9 something an hour.. at least it was a couple of years ago when I had to arrange for one-to-one for an SN child within a creche for a community project. Does anyone have any idea please? Need to know what I should be offering as I need to find someone appropriate to do this.

Thanks

SJ x

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PinkKerPlink · 02/05/2006 13:54

the DP lady who came here said it is up to you. It can be minimum wage upwards. Tbh I would say about £6.50 but you may think that is a bit stingy

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SleepyJess · 02/05/2006 13:58

Minimum wage for coping with DS???!!! Shock I could not expect any person employed under those terms to last an hour!!!! Grin

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SleepyJess · 02/05/2006 13:59

And I get £6.50 p/hour for being a relief TA/dinner lady.. so assumed it ought to be more than that... it would certainly be harder work

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SleepyJess · 02/05/2006 18:27

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nikkie · 02/05/2006 20:24

I get £10 an hour at school and £15 as a 1:1 (interpreting )at a youth club.

Milliways · 02/05/2006 20:29

No idea (sorry) but just to say am glad they have offered to pay! (saw your last thread about i he could attend at all).

PinkKerPlink · 03/05/2006 07:29

is £6.50 a bit stingy then? that is what i offered for my DPs Blush as i only get £5.15 an hour for my job I sort of resent paying someone more than I earn for looking after my daughter anyway. How horrible of me:(

throckenholt · 03/05/2006 07:33

the local authority gave us £7 per hour for one to one a few weeks ago (Norfolk) in a playgroup setting. And we had been paying £8.50 to someone else for a different one-to-one a few months earlier.

We would have paid up to £10 per hour if needed, depending on how difficult we thought the task was.

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SleepyJess · 03/05/2006 10:25

Its not that I think its stingy Fio.. it's just that I think someone needs paying more than that to look after MY DS! I am basing it on that! Grin I suppose it is quite a position of responsibility as well, compared to shop work (you) or standing around in a school playground wearing a fetching striped pinny! (me) Grin

Thanks for the input. :) DS's school one to one is going to let me know today if she can do it.. would be fab if she could as she's great with him. I expect I will have to ask her outright what school pays her so we can try and match it.. but judging by input on this thread am thinking that £9 will probably suffice.. which is the provisional amount I told the church.

SJ x

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Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 03/05/2006 10:29

Our dps rates are set by SS (although we can change it). There's just been a pay rise £7 per hour during the week, £7.20 at weekends. It used to be £6.60 and £7.00.

Depends what they are doing though, I paid our ABA person (a lot) more (although can't remember how much) because she was very experienced, and worked with ds1 independently. The dps people lend me a hand, I work with them so I think that 7 quid is quite generous. At a playscheme I would imagine a helper would be expecting 6.50 to 7 quid an hour unless they had some extremely specialist skill.

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SleepyJess · 03/05/2006 10:34

Well the school 1-1 is 'extremely specialised' in that she can get co-operation and good behaviour out of DS far better than anyone else.. which enables him to really show what he is capable of rather than coming across far more disabled than he really is... so if we do get her I will happily pay her £9 p/h (with church's money Blush) And she would be giving up a little bit of her summer hols (she has 3 kids of her own) which she must really need seeing as she has my DS for ALL of term time.)

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r3dh3d · 03/05/2006 11:09

Er - dumb question, and possibly a bit of a hijack (sorry) Blush - but are we talking net or gross here? Presumably just for a few hours they count as self-employed and this is gross pay - like paying a babysitter?

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SleepyJess · 03/05/2006 11:34

oh erm.. didn't even think of that! Wouldn't it just be gross? In this case it will be cash in hand anyway.. and if that is blatantly illegal than so bit it.. it's only ten hours.

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SleepyJess · 03/05/2006 11:35

Hourly rates ARE usually gross aren't they? I mean you don't see salaries advertised at their 'after stoppages' rate do you...

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Jimjamskeepingoffvaxthreads · 03/05/2006 12:22

Yes gross rates, but if you're using direct payments it is usual to employ people (SS are not keen on people being self employed although if you are using a childminder or someone official like that then they will). So tax comes out of the 7 quid an hour. That's administered by a payroll company though- they send me the payslips, I pay the staff and send the tax bit to the tax office.

PinkKerPlink · 03/05/2006 14:26

I spoke to the DP lady this morning she said £7 an hour is usually the going rate as tax has to come out etc

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SleepyJess · 03/05/2006 21:17

Thanks Pinker :)

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