Childminder costs help!
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Yes, that’s correct. So you need to pay for 12 additional hours a week at a rate of £8.88 an hour = £106.56 It’s frustrating in that you can’t just pay for the hours you know they’ll be there. My childminder makes us pay for 7:30 - 6pm, but I drop him at 8:30 and collect at 5 so we still have to make up the additional hourly rate So if you’re doing £106 x 4 (£424), you just need to pay £339.20 into your gov account and they will top it up
Thank you both for replying! I’m still struggling to understand 😩 (I feel so dumb 😂) he only goes to her Monday, Tuesday & Wednesdays so April for example will be 13 days at £80 a day. Which is £1040 a month with no funding, with funding how do I work that out?! @Rebecca @sammy
I think you just need to take the £80 a day out of it - it’s just the 12 hours that needs paying for, not £80 a day. So just £106.56 a week. I really hope that makes sense! She should send you a proper invoice. You can then deduct 20% off that invoice and pay the money direct into your gov account x
I would think of it in hours per week rather than days. Is he doing 9 hours per day? If so he does 27 hours per week. She charges £8.88 per hour but 15 of those hours each week are funded (although this is less per week. I would ignore the daily cost and do it all in hours, multiply your weekly amount of £106 by the number of weeks in a month and that should be the right amount. I think she’s confused things by stating a daily amount but that isn’t that useful when figuring out how much it will be
OHHHHH. Thank you both so much 🩷 @sammy @Rebecca
Is £106 not the weekly amount you need to pay? I think she’s saying that £79.92 is the amount it costs per day for the hours he’s doing. Your 15 are funded, so if he’s doing 27 per week you need to pay for 12 extra per week. 12 x £8.88 =£106.56 to be paid for each week. That’s how I have interpreted it