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Childcare Nightmare!

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  • emsywoo123
    emsywoo123 Posts: 5,440 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Jimmy Savile reads these forums and looks for schools for his Charidee work (to advance his case for getting an OBE of course). Oh, wait, JS is dead, so perhaps it is not a real problem.

    Are you drunk? :eek:
  • bestpud
    bestpud Posts: 11,048 Forumite
    Presumably the OP will vet childminders before they leave their daughter with them so I don't really see the harm tbh.

    You may get more recommendations on a parenting forum though, OP.
  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    emsywoo123 wrote: »
    Are you drunk? :eek:
    Are you Bessie Braddock? (Google Churchill quotes and reject anything to do with insurance)
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • emsywoo123
    emsywoo123 Posts: 5,440 Forumite
    bestpud wrote: »
    Presumably the OP will vet childminders before they leave their daughter with them so I don't really see the harm tbh.

    You may get more recommendations on a parenting forum though, OP.

    Read post 10 again, and consider your post.

    If you stand by it then I, with respect, would at best consider you naive!
  • emsywoo123
    emsywoo123 Posts: 5,440 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Are you Bessie Braddock? (Google Churchill quotes and reject anything to do with insurance)

    Yes, yes I am.

    And that will be £429 a year, or £63 pcm. Your choice.
  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
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    emsywoo123 wrote: »
    Yes, yes I am.

    And that will be £429 a year, or £63 pcm. Your choice.
    Don't call me Winston. You'll still be Bessie Braddock in the morning.
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • emsywoo123
    emsywoo123 Posts: 5,440 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Don't call me Winston. You'll still be Bessie Braddock in the morning.

    But I won't have a headache.

    And I will be able to enjoy the view from up here on my particularly high moral ground :rotfl:
  • ValHaller
    ValHaller Posts: 5,212 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    emsywoo123 wrote: »
    But I won't have a headache.

    And I will be able to enjoy the view from up here on my particularly high moral ground :rotfl:
    Bessie, on the substantive matter of this discourse, we are actually in agreement
    You might as well ask the Wizard of Oz to give you a big number as pay a Credit Referencing Agency for a so-called 'credit-score'
  • emsywoo123
    emsywoo123 Posts: 5,440 Forumite
    ValHaller wrote: »
    Bessie, on the substantive matter of this discourse, we are actually in agreement

    We've re-written history Winston.
  • Spendless
    Spendless Posts: 25,198 Forumite
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    I read on the opening post for people to recommend a childminder not a complete stranger. Presumably, the OP will contact the childminder visit them and do the usual steps one does before arranging childcare?

    OP- what's the child's age? As we can give different suggestions if the child is 10/11 than if the child is 4/5. What did you used to do before?

    There's a school close to me that has very few childminders picking up from. Options for working parents include the nearest private nursery does drop offs/pick ups and holiday cover to the age of 11. Likewise my kids school which has wrap around care does pick ups from this school. If your child's school has a later or earlier finish time than some others then sometimes CM pick up from different ones.

    Do you have a children's centre? I know last time I was in mine that their was a folder full of childcare providers.
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