Childminder contract breached?

galvanizersbaby

diable wrote: »

Ah thank you for your kindness.........

To be fair diable, OP would be perfectly justified to say the same back to you with bells on :rotfl:

barnaby-bear

galvanizersbaby wrote: »

To be fair diable, OP would be perfectly justified to say the same back to you with bells on :rotfl:

If someone came on any other forum - saying my accountant has embezelled money breaking their professional code and contract what do I do - they wouldn't get "you should do your own accounts"
Or if it had been a secondary school teacher knocking off a 14 year old breaking their legal and professional codes - the advice would be helpful and practical regarding police/ofstead/reporting......

So we get a detailed description of someone's life and their view on her parenting skills

saltibalti

just to let you know that she returned my cheque saying the amount was unacceptable and that I must make full payment within 7 days to avoid FURTHER legal action. Well over three weeks later I have not heard a peep from her or any solicitor.....I've also checked my credit refs in case something slipped thruugh unnoticed by me...court order for example and I got a CCJ for not appearing in court etc........nothing. I would have thought that a letter at the very least from her solicitor should have arrived if anything was going to by now????? Who knows? Thanks for your support and feedback.

never_enough

saltibalti wrote: »

just to let you know that she returned my cheque saying the amount was unacceptable and that I must make full payment within 7 days to avoid FURTHER legal action. Well over three weeks later I have not heard a peep from her or any solicitor.....I've also checked my credit refs in case something slipped thruugh unnoticed by me...court order for example and I got a CCJ for not appearing in court etc........nothing. I would have thought that a letter at the very least from her solicitor should have arrived if anything was going to by now????? Who knows? Thanks for your support and feedback.

Bet she's kicking herself for returning the cheque if she's been told she doesn't have a leg to stand on! Hope nothing more comes of it all.

SuziQ

I terminated a contract with a childminder when my DD was a baby as I found her 12 year old daughter pushing my DD along a very busy dual carriageway-on a school day! A neighbour subsequently told me she regularly left my DD with her husband,sons and had even asked the neighbour to have her one day. She tried the threat of small claims with me to try to force me to pay up-I was a Health Visitor at the toime and quoted rules and regs to her verbatim,told her I was reporting her to social services (who were the regulators at the time) and was also going to tell the mother of the other child she looked after that she was negligent.
She soon backed down with her threats and I never paid her the notice period. Shortly after I found out her 12 year old was pregnant and Social services were supervising her and had taken her registration away. The only reason I trusted her in the first place was because a Health Visitor friend reccomended her-it took me a long time to find and trust a replacement! (who was wonderful and had my DD for 3 years then my second child for 4 years!)

kimmoss88

SuziQ wrote: »

I terminated a contract with a childminder when my DD was a baby as I found her 12 year old daughter pushing my DD along a very busy dual carriageway-on a school day! A neighbour subsequently told me she regularly left my DD with her husband,sons and had even asked the neighbour to have her one day. She tried the threat of small claims with me to try to force me to pay up-I was a Health Visitor at the toime and quoted rules and regs to her verbatim,told her I was reporting her to social services (who were the regulators at the time) and was also going to tell the mother of the other child she looked after that she was negligent.
She soon backed down with her threats and I never paid her the notice period. Shortly after I found out her 12 year old was pregnant and Social services were supervising her and had taken her registration away. The only reason I trusted her in the first place was because a Health Visitor friend reccomended her-it took me a long time to find and trust a replacement!

OMG how awful, it's a good job you found out, something terrible could have happened. How lazy and negligent is that?

On a lighter note, she must have thought it was good practise for her daughter...

saltibalti

Unfortunately some people go into childminding for the wrong reasons....think its an easy option to stay at home with their own kids and get paid for a few more being around. Most don't though and a previous childminder (that I dodn't stay with because she didn't have room for my second child) started up her business and ran it as that, a business....caring and professional, reports to hand, training courses regularly attended, and has since bought her council house and sold it on for a property with a specialised playroom. In hind sight I should have questioned why this other one wasn't having an afternoon off here and there for first aid, child psych etc. The alarm bells came when she was openly (to me) 'dodging OFSTED'....within days the unaccompanied walking to came to light.

I amnow in a situation where I can hopefully cope without outside help,

saltibalti

kimmoss88 wrote: »

OMG how awful, it's a good job you found out, something terrible could have happened. How lazy and negligent is that?

On a lighter note, she must have thought it was good practise for her daughter...

I thought the same!!! You're (and so is she) soooooo lucky your DD came out of that ok. Can empathise so much.

Good2go_2

jimexbox wrote: »

So you would never send your kids to pre-school or school then? When they are on their premises, the school has responsibility.

well said, well said !

never_enough

SuziQ wrote: »

I terminated a contract with a childminder when my DD was a baby as I found her 12 year old daughter pushing my DD along a very busy dual carriageway-on a school day! A neighbour subsequently told me she regularly left my DD with her husband,sons and had even asked the neighbour to have her one day. She tried the threat of small claims with me to try to force me to pay up-I was a Health Visitor at the toime and quoted rules and regs to her verbatim,told her I was reporting her to social services (who were the regulators at the time) and was also going to tell the mother of the other child she looked after that she was negligent.
She soon backed down with her threats and I never paid her the notice period. Shortly after I found out her 12 year old was pregnant and Social services were supervising her and had taken her registration away. The only reason I trusted her in the first place was because a Health Visitor friend reccomended her-it took me a long time to find and trust a replacement! (who was wonderful and had my DD for 3 years then my second child for 4 years!)

OMG! :eek: That poor child, that's really horrible. It makes me so sad to hear things like that.