I am not yet registered, but I know that I could mind a child preregistered for max 2 hours a day.
There is a mum who recently moved into the village who needs part time care for her 2 year old until Sept, mornings only and suspect a couple of hours would be fine. He is currently in a nursery out of the village so she collects from the same preschool and then races up to the nursery to collect her youngest. There is no other child care in the village. The little boy is lovely and she is REALLY nice.
However when I am registered presuming I continue caring for this little boy until Sept when he can then attend preschool, he will take up my only under 5 space available, which means I could only offer part time hours to make up the income this place could earn.
I want to maximise the 2 hour slot and would look to charge it at a slightly higher hourly rate - she would be term time only as well. With 0 experience of running a setting, dealing with parents on a contractual/money basis, I just want to explore it with people with more experience - understand the pitfalls - etc before I sign myself up for something that could become a bit of a thorn.
My husbands work has announced yet more redundancies and if you keep your job you loose 10% of income - so whilst my reasons for going into CM were not born out of earning loads of money - I need to be mindful that I will now have to bring in an income to cover this 10% shortfall.
Any help, advice etc gratefully received.
Debs
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