Nursery, nanny, nursery: what kind of care?
Nurseries
The cribs welcome children from two months to three years. Entrust his child to one creche is the preferred solution parents but only 20% of applications find satisfaction. To increase the chances of seeing your infant enter creche, registration must be done before birth, usually from the 6the month of pregnancy with your mayor.
Different structures answer this name:
- Community crèches, whose schedules are very strict, are managed by the General Council under the supervision of a qualified pediatric nurse.
- Parental crèches are managed by the parents themselves under the direction of a qualified person.
- Family crèches work with childminders. These host, at their home, children and are supervised by early childhood professionals. The difference lies in the fact that parents are not the direct employers.
Rates of cribs vary according to the location and average income of parents (family quotient).
The maternal assistant
Another type of care is the maternal assistant is an approved professional, having received training and accreditation from the Department of Social Action Childhood and Health (DASES) of its department. The parents become his employer and must obligatorily declare this person to the URSSAF and thus establish a monthly pay slip. The maternal assistant must, for its part, have taken out liability insurance covering the damage caused by thechild.
The salary is negotiated between the two parties with a daily minimum set. However, caution remains in place. An unregistered maternal assistant becomes a nanny in her "home", unauthorized practice and may have consequences in the event of an incident with thechild.
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The daycare center
The daycare center is the solution for parents presenting one-off obligations in the week. She welcomes children a few hours a day occasionally. Care is provided by early childhood professionals (youth educators children or pediatric nursery).
For this type of care, the cost of custody varies with the number of hours of care and parents.
The nurses
Employing a person at home can be a convenient method of care. The difficulty lies in the process of finding someone to confide child and his home. The websites of "nannies" flourish on the Web. They connect people offering their services to parents but also parents looking for a nanny. On Manounou.com, the parents can view free hundreds of resumes and be warned by alerts when a CV matching their criteria has been submitted. Similarly, future nannies can have access to requests from parents and make contact with them. On Bebe-annonce.com, the parents can consult more than 16,500 CVs of candidates.
More random, small ads are often filed at merchants, just open the eye.
Once "the rare pearl" found, it should not forget to declare his hiring URSSAF and prepare him monthly a payslip.
Practical advice
If the parents still hesitate on the mode of guard to adopt, they can inquire in town hall, the service of maternal and infant protection (PMI) of the department or the general council of the department.
Different types of help may be granted by family allowance funds or town halls. To avoid having to prepare a monthly pay slip, it is possible to pay nurses and childminders with universal service employment checks (CESU).
Similarly, go through an approved company "Service to the person" by the National Agency for Personal Services allows to benefit from a reduction or a tax credit of 50% of the amounts paid for service to the person.
