babysitter childminder help!

[PooPooOnMars]

Can anyone tell me when it is or isn't legal to pay someone else to look after your child?

Will be working a temp contract and a friend might care for my child for me in exchange for money just as you would a babysitter. Would that be legal? And if not why not. Would be a few hours a day for 10 days or so, in their own home or out and about.

Thank you!

In the carer's home it's illegal. In the child's home it's perfectly fine.

It isn't legal to pay someone to look after your child in their home unless they are a registered childminder. Unless it is 2 hours a day for a maximum of 14 days per year so you may just get around it.

A babysitter usually has them at your house not theirs, more than 2 hours a day would be what people need to be registered for. Why not just do it from your house if it's only for ten days?

So can i have a babysitter at my house everyday? Is there a time restriction on that?

And i can pay her to have my child at her house as long as its not over 2 hours? Is there a website with this info?

Look on the ofsted website and yes at your house it would be fine like having a nanny, and yes they could have your fc at their house as long as its under 2 hours a day.

Thank you very much!

it is only under eight the rule about the 2 hour applies over eight don't count

Oh really? I wonder why that is.

it's the same with ratios under 8. CM can have as many kids over 8 as they like. i think it is because they are more self-sufficient so they see it as less regulation of the care needed.

There is an exemption from the requirement for registration if you pay her other than in cash or equivalent.

She should declare the income to HMRC as it is taxable, and if she gets any means-tested benefits, or benefits based on her incapacity to work she should notify DWP.

Op, the over 8 rule can vary depending on which part of the uk you are in, I'm in Scotland and that rule does not exhist and everyone needs to be a registered regardless of the child's age

Yes, should have said that all of this applies to England and Wales only (and there are some differences in Wales but not to the key things like ages, hours and ratios).