part-time daycare question

Hiya - Whilst looking for daycares I found that some offer part time hours but it is for school hours often ie 9-3 so it is almost a full day's cost. I didn't come across any that would have done 2 hours like you are looking for.

I would perhaps look at Porse or another inhome care agency to see if there is a carer willing to do 2 hours a day?

Daniels daycare did a minimum of 3hrs at a time, no less than that and they wouldn't take a newborn. You will have to ring around cause each area and centre will differ

Our boys do part-time daycare hours, they are in the toddler side, and they do a total of 13.5 hours a week - we do mornings 9.30 - 2 3days a week, but when we first put them in they were just doing 9 hours a week.

It's about $91 each for them now, but with their WINZ subsidy I only pay $160 a fortnight. I think that is OK, they love it. But I guess it depends where your centre is for costs, they all vary depending on where they are based. Ours is way out west - it's rural

in home care like porse or barnardos charge anywhere from 5.75- 7 plus dollars per hour per child depending on the caregiver. Totally depends on the caregiver and if they are willing to do small hours as it is their income. ring around a few places for an idea.

I live close to you I can come over and help you out. I have a done a diploma in childcare.

Here we pay per hour - which in my case is $5.50 (although I technically have a nanny so cheep as)

For example - 3 different palces here charge 3 different amounts ranging from $4.10 per hour (very good daycare but hard as to get into) to $5.20 (home based care)

Thanks everyone:)...With the govt. cutting back funding for ECE many of the daycares are increasing their fees...so I'm looking at the local language nests too as they are already much cheaper ($80 per week fulltime) as well...my colleague's daughter uses PORSE for her wee boy at $10 per hour part time...if I use that as a guide it will be $200 per week for the babies for 2 hours per day ( 5 days )which is still good too...either way, we don't qualify for any subs as we earn in the higher bracket but we also carry LOTS of pre-babies debt!...if only I'd saved for any "just in case' pregnancies