snufflepuff
04-10-2010, 11:19 AM
Just had a phone call from a lady needing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from January for her son who will be 8 months old. I have a space on the Tuesday and Wednesday but not Monday. She told me that she has called lots of childminders in the town already and nobody has any spaces.
So i'm trying to think through my options.
1. She said that it might be an option for a family member to have LO on a Monday but she's not sure and would need to look in to it.
2. I could take them on for the Tues and Wed then apply for a variation for the Monday but it would mean the children's ages would be 8 months, 19 months, 23 months and 24 months. That's alot of young children.
3. I am in the process of registering my Mum as an assitant so that would be an option as long as she is able to secure Mondays as her day off work (at the moment she is off every other Monday.) The way Ofsted have been she won't be registered by then anyway, they can't even seem to send the right forms out to her, they once actually sent an empty enevelope!
4. I could ask one of my current Monday LOs parents how they would feel about swapping to a Thursday or Friday- she is self employed and very flexible but i'm not sure it would be fair to expect her to do this to be honest.
Hmmm, too much to think about. I said i'd get back to her.
So i'm trying to think through my options.
1. She said that it might be an option for a family member to have LO on a Monday but she's not sure and would need to look in to it.
2. I could take them on for the Tues and Wed then apply for a variation for the Monday but it would mean the children's ages would be 8 months, 19 months, 23 months and 24 months. That's alot of young children.
3. I am in the process of registering my Mum as an assitant so that would be an option as long as she is able to secure Mondays as her day off work (at the moment she is off every other Monday.) The way Ofsted have been she won't be registered by then anyway, they can't even seem to send the right forms out to her, they once actually sent an empty enevelope!
4. I could ask one of my current Monday LOs parents how they would feel about swapping to a Thursday or Friday- she is self employed and very flexible but i'm not sure it would be fair to expect her to do this to be honest.
Hmmm, too much to think about. I said i'd get back to her.