Using childcare vouchers to pay nanny in Scotland

[OllieandAnnieMummy]

Does anyone know if I can use childcare vouchers to pay a nanny to care for my children in my own home.

I know this is possible in England through Ofsted but it is the care Commission that rule the roost in Scotland.

I am in discussions with a potential nanny who is keen to be paid legally and with contract etc. I can do this and have found agencies online that will do the paperwork but they all imply I cannot do this in Scotland.

However the nanny is currenlty being paid with co-op vouchers in Scotland. Our emplyers don't use the co-op scheme.

Does anyone know how this works?

thanks

Not too sure - but I think I've read that te only way to use childcare vouchers in Scotland is to employ a nanny through an agency.

As far as I am aware, vouchers can be used but the paperwork side of things needs to go through an agency. So talk to the agency you are already in touch with... see what they can tell you.

This info from a university staff handbook says that vouchers can be used in Scotland, if "child care given in the child's own home by (or introduced through) child care agencies, including sitter services and nanny agencies, which must be registered."

So it's not the nanny whom is registered... but the agency. So you need to get your nanny via an agency or have an agency willing to "find you the nanny you have already found" and just do the paperwork side of things.