As childminders are self-employed, each year SCMA publishes its Pay & Conditions and Tax & NI guides to support childminders in Scotland with their business practices.
Pay & Conditions
SCMA’s Pay & Conditions Guide is a best practice guide for our self-employed childminder members. SCMA would never set out ‘rules’ for childminders, however many childminders find our Pay and Conditions guide helpful and useful when applying conditions to their own childminding service.
SCMA members can download our 2017 Pay & Conditions Guide from the Documents section of the Membership Dashboard.
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Every year SCMA asks its members to respond to an online survey and share their current fees, rates and other business-related information. 514 SCMA members responded to the survey this year and their feedback is collect to produce our Pay & Conditions Guide for childminders.
Read the Pay & Conditions Survey Results in full.
Tax & NI
Being a self-employed childminder, you are responsible for calculating and paying your own tax and National Insurance (NI) – which can be daunting to say the least!
At SCMA, we understand that when it comes to your tax, you want to make sure you’re doing it correctly and thanks to our relationship with HMRC we’ve now published our 2017-18 Tax & NI guide for childminders.
Using this guide will ensure your tax and NI information is accurate, up-to-date and reliable. And with this exclusive childminders’ guidance and support from HMRC’s online resources, you’ll feel much more confident.
Our free 18-page guide covers the Tax and National Insurance issues that directly relate to a childminder’s businesses, and the guide follows childminder Sue as she calculates her own tax using real-life examples and case studies.
SCMA members can download our Tax & NI Guide from the Documents section of the Membership Dashboard.
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