Check Weekly Care-Hour Gaps Against Your Tolerance — Free
Care arrangements are made in hours and broken in weeks. Subtract the hours actually covered from the hours each week needs and check the gap against what the household can genuinely absorb.
The proof surface
Childcare cost cards weigh care costs against shift pay. This works on the coverage ledger behind the money — which weeks have uncovered care hours, and how far past the household’s tolerance the gap runs.
Why the flat version breaks
Counting hoped-for cover as covered
The ledger’s honesty is its whole value; only confirmed hours count.
Averaging the month to hide a bad week
Care fails week by week; a quiet fortnight does not raise the weekly tolerance.
Forgetting cover’s own travel time
Nominally covered hours with a thirty-minute handover gap are two half-gaps, not one covered block.
How to work the uncovered hours docket
From the work, school and appointment grid: the hours a child, adult or dependent genuinely needs someone present.
Confirmed cover only — the co-parent’s week, the booked sitter, the nursery session. Intended cover that is not confirmed is a gap.
The hours the household can absorb — grandparents, a late start, a quiet afternoon job. Three hours is a small buffer; zero is a schedule that breaks on one delay.
The docket reports weekly gaps and flags the ones past tolerance. Four gap hours against a three-hour tolerance is the week that needs a conversation before Monday, not after Thursday.
What the uncovered hours docket replaces
| Question | Before | Visible working |
|---|---|---|
| Counting hoped-for cover as covered | The ledger’s honesty is its whole value; only confirmed hours count. | Enter the hours actually covered |
| Averaging the month to hide a bad week | Care fails week by week; a quiet fortnight does not raise the weekly tolerance. | Set the gap tolerance |
| Forgetting cover’s own travel time | Nominally covered hours with a thirty-minute handover gap are two half-gaps, not one covered block. | Escalate weeks past tolerance |
A local arithmetic aid replaces hand calculation, not expert review. No paid AI service is needed.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Input is processed locally and a draft is saved automatically in this browser profile when storage is available. Reset to sample clears that draft; Pro history has its own clear button. A state link encodes your inputs in its URL: share only non-sensitive rows. Browser history, clipboard and anyone receiving the link may retain it. Optional AI use below leaves this device; it is not required.
Gap arithmetic on the hours and tolerances you supply. Not employment, childcare, safeguarding or benefits advice; childcare arrangements and caring responsibilities interact with workplace rights and local support services, and any safeguarding concern goes to the proper authority immediately.
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the uncovered hours docket: your week | care hours needed | care hours covered stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a clerk's docket sheet
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the uncovered hours docket reading, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 4 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The uncovered hours docket reading is complete for free. The optional $4 layer adds print, row CSV and the last five local reading summaries; it does not add hidden answers. Checkout is not configured yet; the article demo remains unlimited.
Open the check weekly care-hour gaps against your tolerance companionBoundary
Gap arithmetic on the hours and tolerances you supply. Not employment, childcare, safeguarding or benefits advice; childcare arrangements and caring responsibilities interact with workplace rights and local support services, and any safeguarding concern goes to the proper authority immediately.
What this is built on
- Method: The hours the household can absorb — grandparents, a late start, a quiet afternoon job. Three hours is a small buffer; zero is a schedule that breaks on one delay.
- All sample records are invented examples. The app does not fetch measurements, policies, files or personal records.
- Google’s official pricing page, fetched 2026-09-29, lists free-tier access including AI Studio. Optional formatting only; limits and availability can change. Free-tier content may be used to improve products. Never paste private records there.
Before: The ledger’s honesty is its whole value; only confirmed hours count. After: the uncovered hours docket shows the working beside each named row so the reader can change the assumption and inspect the consequence.
Optional AI formatting, not calculation
For this uncovered hours docket, use the free AI Studio interface only if available to you, with no paid API key. Manual entry completes the same workflow for free. Supply only fictional or non-sensitive notes. Review its output against the source; never paste unresolved questions into the numeric rows.
Format my non-sensitive notes for a uncovered hours docket. Return plain rows only: week | care hours needed | care hours covered. Preserve supplied quantities exactly. Do not guess missing values; list questions separately. Do not calculate or add advice. I will check every row before pasting into the local tool.
Accepted schema: week | care hours needed | care hours covered. No AI response is executed as code.