About Busy Kiddies
Childcare in North London
Welcome to Busy Kiddies Childcare, a unique Childcare Agency that is passionate and eager to bring together the key elements of childcare that help to develop children. Holding nurturing and education hand in hand, we will provide first-class childcare to parents, ensuring your child is safe, cared for, engaged and motivated throughout the day.
Many parents lead an active and demanding lifestyle. This is an issue that we can all relate to, which is why we at Busy Kiddies offer a flexible service that can be specifically tailored to meet the different needs of all family types.
Most enquiries from parents have been regarding extra curricular activities for children after school, weekends or holidays.
Parents usually want a nanny or babysitter and in a lot of cases, many parents want to support their children with their education as teachers struggle to provide one to one support. At Busy Kiddies, we have a range of tutors that are qualified to support your children from EYFS to Key Stage 4.
In pursuit of satisfying customer needs, we are one of only a few agencies that offer a ‘Teacher Nanny” service. The ‘Teacher Nanny” is a qualified teacher who can care for AND educate children in a one to one setting including tutoring online. These passionate and creative teacher nannies will follow lesson plans that evoke engaging and motivating learning through educational exploration and play.
Busy Kiddies conduct vigorous checks and a meticulous screening process to ensure the best quality of care for your children. We pride ourselves on education as the founder of Busy Kiddies is a teacher herself. Whatever your needs are, whether it being tutoring, mentoring, fine motor skill activities, mathematics, literacy or whether it just being to engage them in stimulating and challenging games, let Busy Kiddies find you the perfect match to ensure your child is in safe and helpful hands
Our services include childcare, tutoring, school supply, nanny and child minders, specializing generally within the North London area.
Who we are
Lyra-Jane Benjamin
The Managing Director- Responsible for the selection and
placement of childcare management staff.
Busy Kiddies is a Childcare Agency that was founded by Lyra-Jane Benjamin. Having been in the childcare industry for nearly a decade, Lyra-Jane’s experience spans from Childminding, nannying and teaching. After she became a qualified teacher for Early Years and Primary schools, she started taking on After School projects during school and holiday times.
Lyra-Jane’s passion has always been working with children, so much that she studied Child Psychology when obtaining her Bachelors Degree. She has always found children’s development fascinating and believes that we as adults play a pivotal role in their growth and development.
Coming from a professional background in management, Lyra-Jane is keen to grow the Busy Kiddies team by welcoming new clients and colleagues to our forever-growing establishment, whilst providing quality care to our existing members.
What we do
Our bespoke service allows us to carefully hand-select an appropriate child carer to match your needs. We also give you the opportunity to speak to them before you meet them, thus giving you the peace of mind that your family and more importantly, your child, feels comfortable with your new addition to the household.
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Childcare in North London
Nannying Services
We offer a complete nannying service catered specifically for your needs. All of our nannies have been screened and selected carefully, ensuring we have only experienced and passionate individuals dedicated to your families wants and needs when it comes to looking after your child. This includes long and short-term nannies who can provide childcare at the most crucial times. We provide short term, long term, on call, emergency and late hours as part of our service, so that you can have peace of mind that your child will get the care they need, at any time.
Babysitting
We have a range of experienced and passionate babysitters in London who are screened and vetted meticulously to ensure you have the highest quality of care. We provide babysitters in different settings, including family homes, hotels, rental apartments and parties or events.
Tutoring
It doesn’t stop at nannies and babysitters. We provide a range of tutors who specialize in school tutoring for kids using an existing platform, covering the core areas for children in early years, KS1 and KS2 curriculum. We also provide music tutoring for those creative children who enjoy music
You provide your details, i.e.: Subject, the level and the age of the child and we will do the rest!
We will choose the best match based on your requirements, or if you would like to choose from a variety of accredited tutors, we can send a list of all of our experienced staff who live within a close catchment area.
Tutoring Online
Our experienced tutors are now operating online. We can work with children aged 4-19, guiding and supporting children’s individual needs. We do group bookings for same age groups and we also do one to one tutoring online.
Online Tutoring for kids has many benefits some of which include individual support, convenience and flexibility. Not to mention saving time and money on commuting!
With our new online tutoring services, we offer access to free resources and educational games to suit the age and need of your child.
Teacher Nanny
Our teacher nanny services are a unique combination of both nurturing and educating the future generation. All of our teacher nannies will have a minimum qualification holding a university degree in a subject. A teacher nanny will provide lessons for your children, monitor their ability to grasp the material presented using prepared plans and then identify areas where your child can excel in. A teacher nanny will also keep you informed about your children’s progress and let you know about the new skills your kids develop.
Screening process
Pre-interview online application
We will be scrutinizing hundreds of applications a month to ensure we find the most experienced, committed and dedicated candidate needed for the position.
Interview
All of our hand-selected candidates are then vetted through a telephone interview, followed by a face to face or skype interview. This way, we can assess the candidates attitude, passion, integrity and awareness with regards to the position they are applying for.
Identity checks
We will then check all forms of identity, including an enhanced DBS check for all babysitting and nanny positions, to ensure they are a suitable applicant for the position. There will be other thorough ID checks, some of which include obtaining a drivers licenses, passports and a visa.
Reference checks
We will obtain 2 references from employers within the last 5 years to ensure our applicants are trustworthy and reliable sources.
Parent and employee first meeting
At Busy Kiddies, we ensure that we have crossed out t’s and dotted the i’s, however, to give you that extra peace of mind we will give you both an opportunity to speak before you meet up, so you can ask any questions you may have or prepare each other for your first meeting. You can have the opportunity to video call, voice call, or email, this way, your child can feel more at ease as they have already met their caregiver.
Annual checks
After you have successfully placed your caregiver in his/her role, we will carefully check updates for our caregiver’s, including their DBS and first aid documents as well as other vital documents needed.
Other checks
We have a review system, which gives you the opportunity to give any feedback about the caregivers here at Busy Kiddies. This will help all other families just like you, to ensure they have only the best care for their children.
When do our caregivers work?
At Busy Kiddies, our childcarers are here 24/7 365 days a year. Here is a list of what dates and times our services are available to you.
Day care
We provide care from as early as you need. We have nannies to help your child wake up and get ready to go school pick up your child and help with homework, or help with light housework around the children. We have a range of caregivers who are available throughout the day who are available to book straight away!
Evening and Night care
For those parents who are working late nights, or simply just need a night out with some mates or your other half, why not book one of our late-night child carers. With just a few options to choose from, we will make it safe and quick to book with our experienced team. You can specialize it to suit your needs, and we will save your previous bookings to make it easier for your next booking with us! Just give us a call and we can rebook you.
After school care
Working late or just can’t make it in time to pick the kids up? We have a bespoke team of experienced nannies and babysitters who are readily available to pick up your children from school and take them back to their home for further care. We will find an experienced caregiver within the catchment area to ensure consistency and accessibility.
Holiday care
We have a range of experienced team members available to work during the holiday times. Whether it is during the day, night, evening or all of the above, we can find the right fit for you, to ensure your child’s living their best experiences by exploring, playing and learning throughout their holidays.
Emergency care/ On call
Have to rush off? Let us help you ease the time constraint of frantically searching for a child minder. We already have an experienced team who are on call to provide excellent care, whether it being nanny services, child minding, tutoring or au pair services. We are here to help.
Events
Even at the busiest times in your life, let Busy Kiddies ease some of the tension for you. Whenever or whatever the occasion, our professional nannies and babysitters are available to care for any number of children by entertaining or helping the little guests out. Event nannies and babysitters are available during the day, evening and overnight. The service can be tailored to your own needs or requirements.
Should I choose permanent or temporary childcare?
Permanent
Some families require long term child care professionals. This involves a full-time role, usually lasting 10-12 hours a day on average. The roles for permanent positions usually include nannies, babysitters and au pairs. A permanent role is typically a role where the child care professional will work longer than a 3 month period. Anything before this timeframe will be classed as a temporary professional. Permanent child care professionals will be paid directly by you, the client and will need to pay for a placement fee with the agency directly. The fee that is paid to Busy Kiddies would be the weekly amount you pay your employee X 5 weeks, so for example, if you were to pay your employee £600 a week, the placement fee will be £3000. You will no longer need to pay any more fees directly to Busy Kiddies agency as you will be paying directly to your employee.
Please agree your rate with the childcare professional prior to meeting, or upon initially meeting on a temporary contract.
Temporary
For families looking for a one-off, short term or those seeking minimal hours in the week (pickups and drops offs for example), then a temporary child care service is more designed to fit around your needs. Unlike other childcare agencies, you don’t need to pay any booking, administration, membership or placement fees like other childcare agencies. All you will be paying is the standard hourly fee directly to Busy Kiddies, and let us do the rest!