Sitters Reviews

Costs:

• No cost to join
• Quarterly Membership Fees:
  • £13.85 per quarter (equivalent to £4.61 per month or £55.40 per year)
  • This will renew at 3 month intervals until cancelled.
• Booking Fees:
  • Credit card booking fee £4
  • £6 fee for bookings:
    • at hotels
    • starting before 6pm
    • including element of day care
    • given at short notice (less than 12 hours)
• Recommended Babysitters' rates of pay
  • Minimum wage £6.19 from 1 October 2012
  • Minimum of three hours pay per booking
  • London Zone 1
    • Evening babysitting on weekdays: £6.50 per hour, on Saturdays: £7.00 per hour
    • Daytime childcare before 6pm: £8.00 per hour
  • London Zone 2
    • Evening babysitting on weekdays: £6.20 per hour, on Saturdays: £6.50 per hour
    • Daytime childcare before 6pm: £7.00 per hour
  • London Zone 3
    • Evening babysitting on weekdays: £6.20 per hour, on Saturdays: £6.20 per hour
    • Daytime childcare before 6pm: £6.50 per hour
    • Special(slightly higher) rates for:
      • Special dates such as Christmas, New Year's Eve or Valentine's Day
      • Bookings at hotels or other temporary addresses

• Sitters.co.uk is a Babysitting agency and offers the following:
  • Baby Sitting (Evening Childcare)
  • Child Daycare
  • Temporary Short Term Nannies
  • Emergency Nanny Service
• Search for babysitters in your area
• Sitters is a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, the trade body that represents and regulates employment agency businesses and abides by their childcare code of practice
• London's most successful babysitting service for more than 30 years
• Offers a national network of professional evening and daytime babysitters
• Provides evening and daytime child care in all but the most remote locations
• Access to many thousands of carefully vetted, experienced childcarers
• Able to provide babysitters for more than 97% of the requests received from across the UK
• Sitters is an accredited Investor in People, a standard recognised by the Department for Education and Employment
• Sitters is a trading division of 288 Group Ltd, one of Britain's most successful family owned businesses with a track record of over 60 years continuous trading history
• Who are the babysitters?:
  • the average Sitters babysitter is 38 years old
  • the majority have families of their own
  • around 3 out of 4 have experience working as Registered Childminders
  • more than half have experience working as full time Nanny or Nursery Nurses
  • over half have some formal childcare related qualification

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