babysitters

[Tula22]

Hello all you lovely people. This is my 1st post so please be nice. for everyone. We are currently at the beginning of the adoption process and I have been reading lots of interesting/informative posts. My question off the back of a post I just read is when you have adopted a child and need a babysitter do they have to have been crb checked? Thanks for any help/advice

When they are still a LAC, pre-adoption order, they only need to be dbs checked if they are looking after the child overnight and social services need to be notified in advance. If it is just a daytime / evening session, then no they do not need to be checked. However, we were advised to choose one of our references as they had already been veered by social services. This is for our county however. Other LAs may have different procedures.

vetted not veered!

And be aware that many children will not be happy to be left with a babysitter. I've only used family as babysitters. SS were happy for family members to not be CRB checked

Hiya, once the child has been legally adopted, you are the only legal parent(s) and things like this are entirely up to you.

In the time before the adoption order, so when the child is living with you but still technically a looked after child, parental responsibility lies with the LA and they delegate some of it to you, so it would depend on each LA's specific rules. However at that stage you would probably not want to have another person looking after your new DC regularly anyway; nor would you want to leave them with a 'stranger' for non-emergency reasons. So it would only really matter if, say, you are a single adopter and you plan for eg your mum to look after your DC one day/week right from the start.
Normally they'd expect you to be on adoption leave and hence not need anyone else looking after DC but I can imagine circumstances where eg you have weekly medical appointments and no partner/spouse to help.

Thank you all for your comments. It makes sense when they are still looked after children but thought it would have to continue after the dc became legally ours. I'm sure I will be back on these boards in the coming weeks/months picking all your brains

Tula - one of the very best things about getting the adoption order is being able to stick two fingers up at SW (metaphorically! Ours were basically great!) and do whatever you want!

Our LA forbade DC being left with anyone other than a couple of vetted and pre-approved people.