Can u get paid to look after your own kids in family daycare?

[squidipa]

Can u get paid to look after your own kids in family daycare?, if your running family daycare from home , where can i find this information i know they were thinking of it but can ya?

thanks in advance

[briggsy's girl]

nope - you can't get paid to look after your own children. you can receive CCB if you work in a child care centre and have your children in care there while you're working, but this doesn't apply for in-home care as you don't have to pay for it.

the only way FDC carers can get CCB for their child is if they put their child in care with another carer while they work (which some will do as, after CCB, it costs them less than they earn to put child in care and allow them to have more children in care themselves)

[misty]

But wouldn't that defeat the purpose - because you would have to pay for them to be in family daycare????

[squidipa]

sounds a bit unfair hey
thanks for that info tho does help

[briggsy's girl]

misty - as an example - if it costs $5 an hour and the government rebated $3 - you are only paying $2 per hour to have someone look after your child, but you have a child in your care that you're earning $5 per hour for - so you're up $3 an hour. you then take into account the fact that you qualify for the child care rebate, which gives you back half your out of pocket costs each quarter, so $1 an hour is rebated

essentially, long term, you're earning $5 an hour and only paying out $1 an hour for child care - meaning a profit of $4 an hour.

it isn't ideal, but financially it does make sense

[misty]

misty - as an example - if it costs $5 an hour and the government rebated $3 - you are only paying $2 per hour to have someone look after your child, but you have a child in your care that you're earning $5 per hour for - so you're up $3 an hour. you then take into account the fact that you qualify for the child care rebate, which gives you back half your out of pocket costs each quarter, so $1 an hour is rebated

essentially, long term, you're earning $5 an hour and only paying out $1 an hour for child care - meaning a profit of $4 an hour.

it isn't ideal, but financially it does make sense

thank for the explaination - I thought I must have been missing something.