Hi,

I have made some calls and looked around for third party childcare in the local area. Unfortunately there are some problems.

The timing of the conference doesn't help as most daycare or nurseries are only open during the school term and close in the summer, so there isn't anything local where you could drop kids off for the day.
Additionally while it would still be easier to find somewhere to look after children during the day, the evening might present a bit of a problem.
To give an idea of cost, one person I spoke to quoted £12.50 per hour, per child.

I understand in previous Wikimania's that groups of parents have come together to arrange childcare between them. This will be the best option as they could arrange something where they can say "We need x children looked after for x hours."

Would you want this organised via the site?

Best

S






On 27 March 2014 02:23, Richard Farmbrough <richard@farmbrough.co.uk> wrote:
I think it unlikely that more than one or two short term vacancies can be found nearby, these places generally have a very high staff-to-child ratio (by law it has to be for pre-schoolers 1:3 for under twos, for example).

Were we to provide creche facilities  we would have to have DBS certificates for all staff, unless we had a third party - even then we would have check that they checked!

http://www.tinies.com/creches/event-childcare/, for example provide event crèches and childcare.

On 01/03/2014 08:23, Katie Chan wrote:
On 28/02/2014 17:44, Nathan wrote:
Better investigate liability and insurance before deciding on how many
kids signed up is enough to make it "worth it."


Well, that depends on how it is offered. If the conference is offering these facilities, then yes. If it's in the form of "there's these services nearby where we've arranged a special deal for attendees", then liability and insurance will be taken on by the 3rd parties.

KTC



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