What if the childminder is ill?
Day mothers have to do professionally with small children, who touch many things in everyday life, put them in their mouths and spread and take up pathogens. If a nanny looks after sick children, she can easily get infected and become ill herself. If a nanny becomes ill, she falls out.
This means that a sick childminder does not have to work and look after the children. The problem is that child minders often fall ill and the Ministry of Family Affairs is overburdened and not responsible for solving the problem. This means that nobody works to find a replacement when the childminder falls ill.
When the childminder is ill, it is up to the parents themselves to make sure that the children are well looked after. Happy are those who have family, like grandparents who can look after the children. Other families often have no choice but to take time off work to look after their own babies when the childminder is absent. Our next article could also be interesting for you: Care for children and babies
What are the costs for a childminder?
The cost of a childminder depends on the federal state, the total income of the parents, the number of children and the hours of care. There are often very different rates for child minders. A childminder can receive between three and eight euros per hour.
The Tagesmütter Bundesverband recommends an hourly wage of 5.50€. If a family earns about 37,000 € per year and needs care for 30 hours a week, the costs for the first 25 hours are 5 € per hour and the hours 26th to 30th are 0.30 € more per hour. This results in 506,00€ costs per month, which are transferred to the youth welfare office and from there paid to the childminder.
Depending on the agreement with the childminder, further costs may arise for weekend/night care, hygiene articles or excursions. If meals are desired and/or necessary, the parents will settle the costs directly with the childminder. The costs for care by a childminder are paid by the parents themselves.
Parents’ contributions are based on income, so that parents who earn less pay significantly less than very high-income parents. In some federal states there is financial relief from the community or city. In some states, childcare for parents is completely free of charge, for example in Hamburg.In North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony, the last year before school enrollment is also free of charge for parents. For parents with very low income there is basically the possibility on an economic youth welfare service, which means that these parents do not have to pay anything if necessary and nevertheless receive a care by a daily mother for their child.
