Opinions please on family child care issue

mishkanorman

MrsE wrote: »

Are you saying a granny should be registered as a childminder to look after their own grandkids?

I plan on asking for compressed hours, to get one day a week off to help with child minding when I'm a grandmother.

I always believed that if they were being paid to look after the children then they needed to be registered. (not just given expenses)

Judith_W

Not read all the replies, just a thought. Presuming you are saving a lot of money using the parents at £150. Could you then view it as paying for term time care spread over the year so the true cost is say £200, but paid even when not being cared for - paying in equal installments rather than paying when care not being given. Just a thought, it might be a way of not getting really mad if you end up having to accept the arrangement.

otherwise the only other option is to pay for formal childcare (childcare vouchers?)

brians_daughter

MrsE wrote: »

Are you saying a granny should be registered as a childminder to look after their own grandkids?

I plan on asking for compressed hours, to get one day a week off to help with child minding when I'm a grandmother.

If anyone is looking after a child and accepting money of any kind, even pertol money for collection from schoool etc they should be, by law registered with the local councila dn ofsted. Then again, they should also declare this to HMRC but i doubt anyone does!

We had a school circle (2 sets of families aunts etc) where 2 mums did drop offs and 2 did pick ups - the mums whos children were collected from school gave the mum £10 a month for snack food etc... we got hauled into school and they told us we should be registered and declare it to HMRC. If anything happened to one of the children and they were injured etc it would be our responsibility and as were we being 'paid' we had an obligation to be registered and inspected!

Spendless

There seems to be a lot of confusion about who can/can't be paid for childcare.

My understanding, which comes from years on these boards is this; You can pay a close relative, but you can not claim childcare costs via tax credits/vouchers unless the relative is a registered childminder and also minding at least 1 other child.

It is hard to find anything about it on google. I've tried before!