Understand how to comply with financial and taxation requirements when setting up a home based childcare setting
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Case Study
Alice has recently had her first child and is on maternity leave from her job as a teaching assistant in a primary school. She would like to spend time with her baby but needs to have an income once her maternity leave has finished. Her neighbour is a registered childminder and has asked Alice if she is interested in working as her assistant. Alice is considering this as it would allow her to spend time with her own baby while still having an income, she is also thinking about becoming a registered childminder herself instead and working from her own home.
- What are the advantages and disadvantages to Alice in working as a childminding assistant?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages to Alice if she decides to register as a childminder and work from her own home?
- What questions might Alice need to ask the childminder, to help her make her decision?
- Which option do you think Alice should choose?
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