{"id":66587,"date":"2024-06-17T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/educationandfamilies\/fact-guides\/examples-of-childcare-arrangements-between-friends\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T09:29:55","slug":"examples-of-childcare-arrangements-between-friends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/early-years-and-childcare\/devon-family-information-directory\/childminding-between-friends\/examples-of-childcare-arrangements-between-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Examples of childcare arrangements between friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example one<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you look after your friend\u2019s children and, in return, your friend looks after your children and no cash exchanges hands, you do not need to register as a childminder, as this counts as reciprocal care between friends where no goods and services and no money or money\u2019s worth exchanges hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example two<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You care for two of your friend\u2019s children and she gives you a gift of \u00a3100. You must register as a childminder as cash has exchanged hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example three<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You care for a friend\u2019s child and in return she gives you \u00a320 a month to help with food and electricity. You must register as a childminder as cash has exchanged hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example four<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You provide care for a friend\u2019s child and in return receive grocery vouchers for a local supermarket. You must register as a childminder as you have been paid with vouchers and these count as money\u2019s worth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Example five<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You care for two of your friend\u2019s children and in return your friend does the gardening for you. You do not need to register as a childminder as this counts as goods and services and no money or money\u2019s worth exchanges hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you provided childminding for someone who is not a friend and they do your gardening for you then you must register as a childminder, as this counts as reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Example one If you look after your friend\u2019s children and, in return, your friend looks after your children and no cash exchanges hands, you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":66564,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-66587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 19:15:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66587\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}