Childminder is pregnant.

izoomzoom

As a self employed person, the CM is quite likely making NI contributions and thus may be entitled to MA and may therefore want to take up to 9m maternity leave ... (and if she is receiving MA she will not be allowed to work).

Miss-spent_2

I'm a little puzzled OP. You say the first heart beat of a new baby you want your daughter to hear is your baby and yet you are a single mum, doesn't that mean she might have quite a wait or indeed never get the opportunity?

I tend to agree that if your dad looks after your daughter insted of CM you shouldn't have to pay.

My friend looked after my children for four years while I was at university, I didn't pay her if she didn't have them. She didn't have then if something unavoidable came up. We worked through it together and are still best friends.

galvanizersbaby

Miss-spent wrote: »

I'm a little puzzled OP. You say the first heart beat of a new baby you want your daughter to hear is your baby and yet you are a single mum, doesn't that mean she might have quite a wait or indeed never get the opportunity?

I tend to agree that if your dad looks after your daughter insted of CM you shouldn't have to pay.

My friend looked after my children for four years while I was at university, I didn't pay her if she didn't have them. She didn't have then if something unavoidable came up. We worked through it together and are still best friends.

Situations change and the OP may well remarry/have more children - I guess the heart beat thing is something that is personal to the OP

I think that if your dad looks after your daughter while the childminder has her antenatal appointments it would be a bit unfair not to pay her - as it is the OP's choice for this to happen and the CM would still have to keep the daughter's place open - i.e couldn't take on another child.

I think it is a bit different in my opinion if you are using a friend for childcare to a childminder whom you are paying who happen's to be a friend also?

Miss-spent_2

I think it is a bit different in my opinion if you are using a friend for childcare to a childminder whom you are paying who happen's to be a friend also?

Yes that is very true. Childminding as a legally controlled 'proper' business has really changed in the last 10 years or so.
One of my neighbours was a 'proper' childminder and when she had a baby (and another serious operation) she just carried on but her mum came to help


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foxxymynx

Would she usually take your daughter to her personal medical appointments?

scotty1971

Miss-spent wrote: »

I tend to agree that if your dad looks after your daughter insted of CM you shouldn't have to pay.
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i totally disagree with you,she should pay the childminder,as it is not her fault she dosen't want the child to go to appointments,and if she is getting help with child care,through tax credits,she would have to inform them,that the childminder isn't watching the child on those days,as only a registered childminder can be paid through tax credits

swampytiggaa

Miss-spent wrote: »

I tend to agree that if your dad looks after your daughter insted of CM you shouldn't have to pay.

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you do realise that childminding is a job? A proper job? Parents sign a contract to state what days they will be using the childminder and how much they will pay - if the OP chooses not to use the CM on certain days she is still liable to pay her.

TBH i would imagine this is all a fuss over nothing <shrug> the CM has the child 2 days a week. That leaves 3 others for scans/antenatal appointments etc and i would imagine that the CM would prefer to have these on days when she isn't minding.....

In my opinion the OP has to decide whether or not she is happy with the childcare she is getting - and talk these concerns over with her CM and find out how the CM is planning to organise appointments/her work etc.

Good luck with it all

silvercar

you do realise that childminding is a job? A proper job? Parents sign a contract to state what days they will be using the childminder and how much they will pay - if the OP chooses not to use the CM on certain days she is still liable to pay her.

Works both ways. Can the childminder be doing her job effectively while at an ante-natal appointment? Can a childminder be doing her job effectively 2 days after having given birth?

swampytiggaa

silvercar wrote: »

Works both ways. Can the childminder be doing her job effectively while at an ante-natal appointment? Can a childminder be doing her job effectively 2 days after having given birth?

<shrug> I did.....

tbh i think the only way this can be resolved is by the OP talking to her childminder - that should either set her mind at rest or convince her to look for someone else to care for her child. Our conjecture isn't really going to help.

robpw2

she will have to inform ofsted because the number of children she is allowed to look after will go down!