When your child is too ill for school or nursery, a DBS-checked, paediatric-first-aid-trained sick-day carer comes to your home — within 30 minutes. Your child is cared for, in their own bed. Your working day survives.
Three steps between a 7am temperature and a working day that survives it.
One message, any weekday morning. Tell us the symptoms and your street — that's it. No phoning around, no begging favours, no negotiating whose meeting matters more.
Local, vetted, and trained specifically for sick days: comfort, fluids, temperature monitoring, and strict escalation rules if anything changes. A proper handover, then off you go.
Gentle care at home, updates through the day, and a written handover note at the end of it. Up to six hours per call-out — the school day, covered.
We're telling you the price before we launch, because we'd rather earn a shorter waitlist of families who genuinely want this.
Most families need us rarely — but when you do, you need someone trained, vetted and nearby, immediately. The membership funds a standing team of local carers so that promise is real at 7am, not a marketplace lottery.
It works like insurance you can actually see: a small monthly amount buys the certainty that the worst school-run morning of the term is already handled.
For scale: £65 is around the price of a single day at a London nursery — here it buys a month of guaranteed sick-day cover. We'd rather you join with clear eyes than clever framing.
Wonderful — if you employ one full-time. But a one-off sick day isn't what nannies are for, and most childcare settings can't take an ill child at all.
Where available — typically asking for notice, paid upfront to secure the booking, and not specifically trained or guaranteed for sick-child care at 7am.
The only line on this page built for the job: trained for sick days, guaranteed at your door within 30 minutes, on the exact morning everyone else says no.
Sources: Nannytax Salary Index payroll data (London average, 2025); published London temporary/emergency nanny agency rate cards and booking terms. Figures are typical ranges, not quotes.
Every carer is employed or contracted directly by us — never a marketplace stranger — and cleared four ways before they ever reach a doorstep.
Enhanced DBS certificate on the update service, verified references, right-to-work checks.
Certified paediatric first aid, refreshed annually — not a checkbox, a requirement of the job.
Our own certification: infection control, comfort care, medicine-record keeping, and strict escalation protocols.
Based inside the zone — that's how 30 minutes is possible — and covered by specialist childcare insurance.
A picture of the standard, not a promise of a person — you'll meet your actual local team at onboarding, before you ever need them.
I've burned four of my own sick days this year. None of them were mine.
Mum of two · ClaphamThe 7am scramble is the single most stressful part of my working life. It's not even close.
Dad of one · BatterseaWe don't have family nearby. Our current plan is, in full: hope.
Parents of three · WandsworthFrom our parent interviews across the zone — the conversations this service was built on.
A few questions help us plan carer coverage street by street. Takes about a minute.
The everyday ones that close the school gates: temperatures, coughs and colds, tummy bugs past the worst, chickenpox once scabbed, recovery days. Our carers follow clear clinical guidelines on what's safe to care for at home — and clear escalation rules (you first, then 111/999 if ever needed) if anything changes.
No catch — it's how a membership works. A single emergency day bought ad-hoc costs £150–£220 because you're paying for one person's whole day at short notice, plus agency fees. A membership pools that across many local families: most don't need us in any given week, so everyone's small monthly amount funds a standing, trained team for the families who do. Same logic as insurance — except you can see exactly what you get: two included call-outs, a fixed member rate beyond, and a 30-minute guarantee.
Neither. Care happens in your own home, by a carer trained and vetted by us. There's no setting for your child to travel to and no marketplace of strangers — the same small, local team every time.
Winter bugs cluster — we plan for it. The team is deliberately sized above average demand, we track school-level coverage (that's why we ask), and we hold vetted backup capacity for outbreak mornings.
Anytime. Rolling monthly membership, no minimum term, no exit fee. If it isn't earning its place in your family's life, it shouldn't be billing it.
We're building the founding carer team in SW11 now. Founding waitlist members get first access, first month free, and a direct say in how the service works — we'll be asking your opinion, not just your email.
This time, let it be someone trained who answers the door at 7:34.
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