shoestring
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Does anyone have any idea how much the going rate for someone to look after a child in the child's own home per day (9-6pm) is?
Au pairs should not be working fulltime hours.
my research indicates 5 euro/hour
The possibility of earning taxfree from childminding is only if it is done in the childminder's home - the OP is looking for someone to come to the child's house - ie looking for an employee to come to their own home. A childminder in the child's home has advantages over creches - don't have to get the child(ren) out of bed early in the morning and no issue if the child a sick (obviously a disadvantage if the childminder is sick...). But the employer will have to register for tax, prsi etc. and keep employee records, do P60s etc.Yes. it's cash, and you can earn a decent amount tax free.
Any more, and you can't compete with the creches etc.
Yes. it's cash, and you can earn a decent amount tax free.
Any more, and you can't compete with the creches etc.
If the parents work 8 hours per day, then you are going to have to work 9 to cope with their commute = 45 x 5 = 225/week = 900/month. That is what a creche would charge.
Some do it for 200/week.
You'd pay someone 5 euro an hour to come to your home all day every day to look after your child? Someone untrained, unregistered, illegal, and for that price, no doubt totally disinterested, to spend every day with your child?
Unreal.
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Au pairs should not be working fulltime hours.
What fraggle is suggesting is illegal. Hiring someone in this manner puts you at significant risk if anything were ever to go wrong. For example, if they were ever to suffer an accident in your home, you would be fully liable, and your insurance would not cover you.
I've edited the title of the thread as what the OP is looking for is clearly not an au-pair.
Leo, many Home Insurance Policys cover childminding, also their is NO legal reason for a childminder to register in Ireland unless they mind more than three children.
What do childminders do with sick children, where they're already minding (non-sick) children ?
Are there ad-hoc childminders out there who, on an emergency basis, look after kids ? (And who would satisfy normal paranoid overly-protective mothers?)