Is a temp agency going to laugh at me?

[KatyMac]

I'm S/E, a childminder - I run a large CM setting with no very few children

In order to keep my staff on until things pick up pipe dream I am going to try 7 get temp work

Is this a silly reason to find temp work, will they laugh? Should I come up with a different reason for looking for work?

Will you have to pay out loads for redundancy packages?

not really

I person = 1 month

Katymac - were you on radio 4 as well this morning?

No Radio 5 & BBC News 24 (I think??)

Yes it was definitely you KatyMac. Hair not too dark, very nice

You should have mentioned that you have vacancies and plugged your business a bit!

Well I thought about it....but thought it would look a bit unprofessional

Katymac, do schools in your area do the half-day reception thing for 1st half term? Maybe getting some of them would help tide you over? All though I guess you would need some means of collecting them from schools.

KatyMac, I'm wondering why you don't down size your buisness? Surely it would make better buisness sence for you to CM alone, and not employ anyone atm?

Probably but 4 families depend on me for wages - If I give them up then get new children they may have found alternative work so I would have to re-recruit

It took ages to get a good team together and I want to try my hardest to enable us to continue working together - so that at least if I do have to lay them off they know I tried as hard as a could to keep them employed

Well - I am up for 10 days work in mid-September, so we will see

I Got 20 hrs a week at the council

Lets see if I can 'do' employed again