Earn £10ks by taking Wraparound Bookings Online

Wraparound clubs, out of school hours childcare, Stay and Play, school age child care, breakfast clubs, after school-clubs, and early age childcare clubs are complicated to manage without an inteligent, made-for-purpose booking solution like Parents Booking.

Child care clubs of this nature can also be extremely lucrative for schools looking to augment their income. Surveys conducted in 2024 advise that the average after-school club generates around £2,700 per attending pupil per year, based on term-time bookings alone. In our own experience, schools usually earn between £30-100k in annual income by providing breakfast and after-school clubs, depending on their uptake.

Parents Booking takes away the pain of organising your school's wraparound clubs, beginning with an intuitive, moden  booking portal for parents, through to managing attendance (which will almost certainly be different each day), not to mention providing flexibility with parents' payments.

Parents Booking is your solution for the UK Government's Free Breakfast Club roll-out:
Since April 2025, the UK Government has been piloting free breakfast club sessions, for 30 minute every day, for student at 750 English primary schools. This pilot is expected to be rolled out nationally, to all English primary schools, during academic year 2025/26.

Our solution is simple; whether your school presently uses Parents Booking or not, schools can create a wraparound childcare club in seconds, firstly by selecting the dates it is available, and then creating the sessions that parents can book (for example every Monday-Friday from September to December, with a 7-9am and 8-9am session priced at different amounts). Next, block out any dates which are unavailable within that range, choose a maximum capacity for each day and finally set up any advanced pricing or discounts you want to provide. In just a few clicks, parents will have been sent invites to login (using a magic login link, meaning no username/password) and make their bookings.

Clubs which require payment can be paid for instantly through our payment gateway, or by using childcare or similar vouchers which are authorised by your school, as well as tax-free childcare contributions. Where allowed y the school, selected parents can even choose to book now and pay later.

For schools and local authorities that already use Parents Booking, the wraparound childcare booking features are shown in the same web pages as the parents' evenings, events and clubs that parents already use, meaning parents will be familiar with how to login to and book. That familiarity and trust will be of great benefit.

For schools and local authorities who want to use Parents Booking's wraparound childcare booking functionality only, Parents Booking will only show these features to users. All other booking modules (e.g. parents' evenings) are hidden.

Use Parents Booking to:

  • Generate tens of thousands of pounds in childcare income
  • Save most of the admin and co-ordinator time associated with organising wraparounds and their payments
  • Provide parents with easy access to book, and flexibility to make changes
  • Easily review payments, credits/cancellations and attendances

Features added for the new 2025/26 academic year:

  • Book Now and Pay Later feature (for parents the school provides this option to, so that parents can pay off their debt in installments or part-pay later using vouchers and credits)
  • Pattern Generator (to help parents easily book an entire term's booking pattern, e.g. every Monday and Wednesday, all term)
  • Two-Phase Rules (to help schools understand the minimum staffing requirement, by asking parents to choose a pattern before they can later book ad-hoc dates in a later 'phase' of bookings)
  • Debtors, Payments Received and parents' My Payments web pages show finance information
  • Monthly statement emails to parents detailing their activity and any debt to settle

Ask us (call +44 (0)1463 731000 or email hello@parents-booking.com) to show you the Wraparound Care features, and/or for help setting up your first Wraparound Care bookings.