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  2. Posted

    depends on their ages really.

     

    A live out nanny would be about £14,000!

     

    Childminder for under 5's ranges between 3.50 and 4.00 per hour. some offer sibling discounts, some do not. some include food some do not.

     

     

    Childminders - self employed, pay their own tax, NI, you may not have to pay holiday fees or pay for sickness

    Nanny's are employed. you pay their tax and NI and have to pay sickness, holiday and possibly maternity pay

     

    Childminder works in their home, sets their business rules, opening hours

    Nanny works in your home, you set the rules

     

     

    Childminder is Ofsted registered

    Nanny would only be on the voluntary register (Nannies do not have to register)

     

    What is it you are wanting to know?

     

    :)

  7. Posted

    Hi Sallylizzie

     

    A few of the registered Childminders sometimes do babysitting work too (i.e come to your house to look after the kids on a weekend)

     

    The benefit to this is that the Childminders public liability insurance covers them for working in your home, (both NCMA and MM insurers do) plus they will have all the qualification such as First Aid and Food Hygiene.

     

    I offer this service too

     

    :)

  8. Posted

    well technically by law you only need car seats in personal cars, taxis are exempt from the rule and will carry kids without. Though having said that I would take a car seat for the way home personally yes and I would think the midwives may ask you.

     

    that may not be strictly true...

     

    taxi firm told us they would not take our under 3 without a car seat (DH had it in the car and I needed to take DD to hosp (not urgent) he had to come out of work and take us as taxi would not without a car seat)

  9. Posted · Edited by Flutterbyes
    updating vacancies

    Have you considered a Childminder? There is masses of research that shows that younger children have better outcomes if they are in a home environment for the first few years.

    If you find a good Childminder they are worth their weight in gold!

     

    http://www.nicoleoneill.co.uk/contact.html

     

    is S8 way and is doing the Foundation Degree in Early Years with me (we give up our Saturdays to attend Uni), but I am not sure what spaces she has right now.

    I am just over the way in S14 and as of June 2012, have a few vacancies due to expansion

  11. Posted

    Hi I am a nursery manager, the FEL guidelines state:

     

    No requirement for child to access additional hours (including outside of the 38 weekds) for a fee.

     

    that's what I thought but had not got round to looking.

     

    providers who want to provide the FEL must agree to the criteria on of which has been written above. Basically if you only want to send your child term time only 15 hours a week the nursery can not charge you for the other 14 weeks of the year...

     

    although what they can do is offer the funding in sessions... say morning and afternoon

    8.30 till 11.30 and 12.30 till 3.30 if you want your child to attend the whole day then you have to pay for that hour in the middle... 11.30 till 12.30, very sneaky but I wonder if your nursery is charging and extortionate amount for this hour... you don't HAVE to have this hour but it means collecting and dropping child back at nursery...

     

    ask for an appointment, go in and ask for a breakdown. why do they want to charge so much?

  14. Posted

    Yes Molls that was it...

     

    Venture really push the hard sell...

     

    we paid just short of £900 for a wall framed picture, I sobbed as the image was stunning but we really couldn't afford it and they really lay the sell on really thick.

     

    I got our ben west shoot off sheffielddealoftheday

     

    we paid £12 for our session, we got to view the images online so no hard sell and I chose to have the images on disk and paid a £250 for them. So now we have about 50 images rather than 1 image and I own the copyright to the images from ben. Whereas venture said that if we didn't buy then they would delete all the images.....

     

    I wouldn't go back to venture even if it was free...

     

    my friend had a similar experience that she ordered a picture montage and they sold her a 'discontinued frame' but when the pictures arrived they wouldn't fit the frame as she bought the frame on the day weeks of to-ing and fro-ing over it

     

    they even offer finance in venture!!!

     

    set yourself a budget and stick to it is my best advice!!

  23. Posted

    Hi

     

    Generally (with the exception of twins) a childminder can only look after 1 child under the age of 1 and a maximum of 3 children under the age of 5. However the mixed age range can be of benefit (research as part of my uni degree) to all the children. Older children learn about patience and understanding and the younger children are 'brought' on by observing the older children.

    A fantastic childminder will be of great benefit, the bond the child will form will not replace the bonds with the parents, but will be extremely close. A true 1-1 relationship, some childminders have pets and its a proper home environment, not some artificial setting trying to be a home.

     

    Look around, take references, but IMHO any child under 1 should be in a home setting. Even a local childrens centre refers children under 1 to the local childminders

     

    :)

  25. Posted

    http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HPAweb_C/1194947383816

     

     

    so long as your little one is well they can go to nursery as normal...

     

    HFM is quite rife through nurseries and I have had it along with one of the little ones, we came out in spots at the same time but my DD avoided

    Preventing spread of the disease

    Children should be kept away from school/nursery whilst unwell. However, there is

    no need to keep a child away from school/nursery until the last blister has

    disappeared providing he/she is otherwise well.

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