Looking After Someone Elses Child For Money

[bednobs]

hi, my friend has been asked by a mum at nursey if she'll have her dom for 1/2 hour every weekday and drop him off at nursery
1) do you have to do any sort of registering or legal stuff
2)how much would you charge?

[albaqwerty]

if the mums are friends, then I don't see a legal problem.
If friend has expenses to get child to nursery then surely the mum should cover that?
Is your friend a mum and do the kiddies interact with each other?

[bednobs]

no expenses- she'll walk him there, but will look after him from 7:30 till they go to nursery at 8 am
yes

[bednobs]

dom? i meant son!

[albaqwerty]

As far as I can see (I'm no legal beagle), she's helping out.
I'd hate to think that I'd have to get checked out or extra insurance if any of the young alba's had a pal or pals early in the morning or staying overnight.

[albaqwerty]

lol, I knew that :-D ipads and keyboards are wonderful :-D

[ummmm]

1) No, you can ask any responsible person to babysit.

2) Same as any local childminder.

[Maydup]

Nothing to do legally, and if it were me I'd ask £20. A random amount that is a gesture of thanks. I'd also expect to be able to ask a favour in return here and there.

[shaneystar2]

Have times changed that much ?
I used to have a friends little 'un some mornings and took him to school with mine .I used to have another one some afternoons too until she came to pick him up after she finished work .
Charging them would never have entered my head or any legal stuff.
I just did it as favour and they helped me out as and when .

[ummmm]

Maidup - it's not a favour if you charge for it.

[bednobs]

my friend was thinking £25! Personally i think that's over the top - p's nursery only works out at £5 perhour and they have loads of equipment, qualifications etc

[ummmm]

How long will it take her including getting home? Does she have to take her own child anyway?

[bednobs]

yes - taking her own child too + it's about 4 minute walk

[Maydup]

ummmm - my favour was doing it 5 days a week for £20.

[ummmm]

A favour is doing it for free.

I'd probably do it for a bottle of wine every Friday :-)

[shaneystar2]

That's two and a half hours a week of her time for twenty five quid !
And a four minute walk .
I must have gone wrong somewhere :)
The mother of the one I looked after in the afternoons on a regular basis for quite some time took me to tea at The Ritz !
But we were all quite friendy anyway and it was done on a help out basis .
Money didn't come into it .

[Maydup]

It didn't appear to be a friend asking, just "a mum at nursery." In reality I'd probably do it for nothing too, but the question was how much to charge. Its not a friend doing a favour, so charge £20 a week and put it in the shoe fund!

[rosieapple]

Your friend might like to look at the factsheet available from the ofsted website http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/factsheet-childcare-childminding-between-friends.

[ladyalex]

I used to have one of the son-and-heir's wee pals here once a week for about half an hour before taking them to school for years.
It never occurred to me to charge anything as the other Mum and I were near neighbours and I knew she would (and did) return the favour for me whenever I needed it.
Seems a shame that everything is looked at in terms of money now.