HerneHillGem

Thanks for everyone's interest so far. As I'm working Wednesday - Friday I would be ideally looking to do two days each. If this would suit you, get in touch!

Just rang OFSTED, they said it's totally fine as long as no payment is exchanged, such as money or even a box of chocs etc. As long as it's just childcare people are exchanging they have no problem with it. Yay!

One of the girls from my anti-natal group who is a lawyer is looking into the legalities, but I believe that idea that people couldn't exchange child care was dropped after Ed Balls intervened and OFSTED changed their policy. It was absolutely ludicrous that those two ladies were prosecuted in the first place!

Hi, I am a new mum who will be returning to work in September when my son will be 7 months old. I'm currently looking for childcare but am finding it all a bit expensive. I was wondering if anybody else felt the same and wanted to do a child care exchange, where I looked after your little one for one or two days a week in exchange for you looking after my little boy. I will be working Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and my mum will hopefully be looking after him for one of these days. I'm a primary school teacher specialising in the early years so am CRB checked and have plenty of experience of working with little ones. Has anyone heard of schemes like this or would be interested? I've checked with OFSTED that this is Ok, and as long as no money is exchanged, then it is all above board.