cockatoos
30-06-2014, 01:16 PM
Hi everyone,
I have been inundated with requests for afterschool care from my local infant school, as have the other local childminders. There is an afterschool club which picks up from the school but it's not well liked, especially for the younger children. It got me thinking whether I should think about setting up an afterschool club at the school and what hoops I would have to jump through in order to do it. I wondered whether anyone had any experience of doing this?
I currently childmind with my husband but he would stay at home to look after the rest of the little children, plus picking up our son from junior school.
So what I know so far is;
I would need to register as childcare on non domestic premises.
I would need two people, one qualified to level 3 (me) plus an assistant.
I could look after up to 8 children per adult - does this include children of nursery school age as the school has a nursery attached?
I would obviously need insurance, RAs, policies etc.
I would also need to know whether this is viable income wise - I think initially it would start small but might increase.
Has anyone got any advice for me? What big things am I missing?! Would love to just be able to work term time only and then only one of us would need to look after the little children during the holidays, freeing up the other to look after our boys in the holidays.
Thanks in advance!
I have been inundated with requests for afterschool care from my local infant school, as have the other local childminders. There is an afterschool club which picks up from the school but it's not well liked, especially for the younger children. It got me thinking whether I should think about setting up an afterschool club at the school and what hoops I would have to jump through in order to do it. I wondered whether anyone had any experience of doing this?
I currently childmind with my husband but he would stay at home to look after the rest of the little children, plus picking up our son from junior school.
So what I know so far is;
I would need to register as childcare on non domestic premises.
I would need two people, one qualified to level 3 (me) plus an assistant.
I could look after up to 8 children per adult - does this include children of nursery school age as the school has a nursery attached?
I would obviously need insurance, RAs, policies etc.
I would also need to know whether this is viable income wise - I think initially it would start small but might increase.
Has anyone got any advice for me? What big things am I missing?! Would love to just be able to work term time only and then only one of us would need to look after the little children during the holidays, freeing up the other to look after our boys in the holidays.
Thanks in advance!