Home based care question
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Topic: Home based care question
Posted By: Kallie
Subject: Home based care question
Date Posted: 06 April 2010 at 8:33am
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Hi! I have been working as a home based educator for the last two years , towards the end of last year my visiting teacher came round one day after being up at a conference up north and said that the ministry of Education were bringing in a new thing where if home based educators have children of their own they can get paid for having their own child for any hours that they have extra's. At first i thought that sounded a bit crazy to get paid looking after your own child/children but she was sure and said they wanted to encourage home based care and keeping your children at home with you... anyway a few months went by as she said she was looking into how you go about it and came back finally and said it was a no go. It didnt really bother me but now im just wondering if anyone else has heard of this and maybe it is true but the organisation i work for isnt going to do it , or maybe she just got her facts wrong and it was never something that was put in place.?
It's just if it is actually is something you can get it would make a huge difference for us especially when no2 gets here and i can only have 2 extras and ill only make $8 per hour. if anyone else has heard anything about it or just knows its wrong i would love to have the record set straight!! TIA 
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Posted By: ButterflyMum
Date Posted: 06 April 2010 at 8:37am
not heard of it but to me it's on of those sounds to good to be true thing's. for example I could only have one extra child most of the time and get paid for 4 seem's a bit odd but if it was true I would be in like a shot. -------------  
 
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Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 06 April 2010 at 9:48am
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I have heard of it - I didn't think you could get it for your own kids though, just if you were a grandparent, or looking after kids for free.
My MIL was looking into it - apparently if you sign kids up (she looks after our kids 2 days a week), the agency gets about $1.70 per hour (in Chch, don't know if it's different elsewehere) which then gets forwarded on as a portion to the caregiver, regardless of whether the parents top up to normal rates or not. It sounds odd to me, so I refused to do it, as I don't want it affecting our subsidies at the other daycare or not, and would rather pay my MIL that money outright if she so desperately wants it. TBH it sounds way too good to be true. |
Posted By: Kallie
Date Posted: 06 April 2010 at 11:00am
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Butterflymum- yeah thats exactly what i thought , if it was for real it would be awesome for those with 3 at home ! $12 and hour for looking after their own kids!
Emz., maybe that was what they were talking about at the conference and she just got mixed up... i could almost understand it if it was only for 3 or 4 year old and instead of having your kids in daycare you had them at home when you were working for their 20 free hours |
Posted By: LJsmum
Date Posted: 06 April 2010 at 2:52pm
I used to work for a homebased service as a visitng teacher. This is too good to be true, because for it to work you would have to pay yourself  !
because who would pay you for looking after your own kids, not the ministry of education. !! So it's a no go which is a pain because imagine if you could i would get $20 an hour as at the moment can only have 2 extra kids to make a total of 4 so only $10 an hour so not worth it.Rate is $5 per hour. Other homebase services pay more though. -------------  
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