Comments for Registered Childminding

Comment on Setting Your Childminding Fees by Tamsin

Tamsin — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:00:29 +0000

When you are recording your income, you would add up the total amount of money you receive – the sum of the cash/cheques/bank transfers.

For most expenses you’d record the amount you paid i.e. the amount shown on the receipt.

Calculating heating/lighting/water/rent/council tax is slightly different and is explained here Allowable Expenses.

Basically you work out how many hours you are at work e.g. if you work Monday 9am to 4pm that counts as 7 hours work, even though if you have two children you’d bill them for 14hrs total.

Comment on Setting Your Childminding Fees by Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:50:52 +0000

I have 3 children in my care 1 I have for 17 hours a week an one hours can change from week to week my last one I have for 8 hours a week do I need to add all hours together per child even if I have them at the same time, when I am doing me expense do I do it per child per day as I get paid weekly do I add it all together at the end of the week then see what my income is after 4 weeks. Can u help with easy ways of doing things if its not right.

Thank you hope u can help
Sarah slater

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Tamsin

Tamsin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:53:08 +0000

The best people to ask our your local tax office. You’d only be able to claim if the subscription was for the children’s use and if it wasn’t solely then perhaps a portion. The same would apply for your TV licence.

For you phone, work out which calls are business use and you can deduct the cost of these and then that portion of your line rental/subscription eg. if 10% of your calls are business related you can deduct the per minute rates of these plus 10% of the line rental.

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Kate

Kate — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:14:57 +0000

I currently am unable to get more than 1 childrens channel on my freeview tv. If I subscribe to Sky am I able to write a proportion of the weekly bill off against my childminding expenses? Also the same for my mobile and land line line rental?

Comment on Childminding Retainer Fees & Deposits by Tamsin

Tamsin — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:21:27 +0000

Hi Hemi,

Discussing it with your childminder is definitely the next step as fees and retainers vary depending on your contract. Often the 50% fee in the holiday acts as a retainer because the childminder has an empty space for a few weeks that they can’t fill and would otherwise have no income, so you pay 50% instead of full fees. If you then decide to use the childminder, you would then pay full fee for the time that you use. So if you usually pay for two days a week, over the holiday you’d pay 50% (the equivalent of one day), if you wanted to use one of those days, you would pay 50% still for the day you didn’t use but full fee for the day you did use (so equivalent of one and a half days). Your 50% retainer wouldn’t cover all the fees, because then you wouldn’t be paying for the day you didn’t use at all.

Generally you only pay a retainer if the childminder is available to work but you don’t use them. So, if your childminder agrees, if you, for example, usually use 5 days, but in the holiday she is available for three, you could pay half fees for those three days, and if you use the place, full fee for the day or part day you used.

I hope that helps!

Comment on Childminding Retainer Fees & Deposits by Hemi

Hemi — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:00:50 +0000

Hi there
I have a childminder and at the start we agreed to a holiday retainer of 50% during the holidays and he also stated that I could use this 2.5 days if I wanted to. The problem I have is that now is has changed her mind about working so much in the holidays and wants me to continue to pay 50% but is only available for 2 days or less. I am a fair person and am trying to be reasonable but I don’t understand why I should pay an extra half day when only two days of childcare is on offer. I am about to ask her if she wants to change the arrangement to 1,2 or 3 days for the holidays on the proviso that these days are available if I should choose to use them. If she wants to have more days off then work I don’t mind but I think it is not fair or reasonable for me to pay for more than she is willing to offer… please advise.

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Joy

Joy — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:29:26 +0000

Remember wear and tear at 10% of gross income and food exclusively for clients are also allowed, together with the mentioned wholly and exclusively for business expenses

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Michele

Michele — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:09:32 +0000

I am finding the calculating tool fab, best thing I ever found! I was just wondering if I can claim against my rent if I am part of the shared ownership housing scheme? And also have had to buy a 7 seater especially for the business, so I was able to take on more children, as I have no choice but to do the school runs via car, can I claim for part of that as well ? Many thanks

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Ella J

Ella J — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:34:28 +0000

Hi this is a great tool..Thanks

can i ask… i pay for my water and council tax monthly. So when i work out my allowance do i use my average weekly hours to get the total monthly expenditure allowance??? or do i calculate my weekly hours against the monthly payment for my weekly allowance??? I work different hours each week so i’m struggling to understand it. Hope this makes sense

Kind regards

Comment on Calculate Childminding Allowable Expenses (Household) by Ella

Ella — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:32:18 +0000

Hi this is a great tool..Thanks