Paying for nanny to be OFSTED registered

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Hi,

I am fairly new to the world of employing a nanny, I have finally found a woman who seems great but is not OFSTED registered. She is returning to nannying aftet a long break. Issue is we rely on universal credit childcare payments, and it looks as if they only pay for registered nannies.

If we arrange this for her, any idea how long it is taking at the moment?

Thanks

Nanny's opinion here. My first employer that wanted to use childcare vouchers told me about OFSTED registration (this is going back 18 years ago) as I'd never heard of it. He paid for it and I had a qualification and first aid.
Since then with each family I've worked for I've offered to pay it or pay half but they have always paid the full amount.
They pay the £105 yearly but I pay every 3 years to renew my first aid around £90 and you also have to have nanny insurance, that I pay for, about £70 a year. Also an initial police check DBS certificate is pricey and needs renewing each year. That I pay for too.
It's true as a nanny you don't have to be OFSTED registered unless your bosses are claiming vouchers etc but I and most of my friends see it as a mark of distinction. OFSTED is much stricter with childminders and all the regulations surrounding them and their business than they are with nannies.
As a parent you could employ anyone off the street to be your nanny (not like you would) but as an OFSTED approved nanny you bring to the table a candidate who has a childcare qualification, first aid training, is insured and police checked.

We paid for our nanny's registration and she resigned after a few weeks! But if this is the only way, perhaps it is better to bite the bullet

Definitely the norm for the family to put for a nanny to be Ofsted registered. A nanny will have all her own Enhanced DBS a recognised childcare qualification and Paediatric first aid to become Ofsted registered. It usually takes around 12 weeks. The only benefit to the nanny is that she is more employable to families if she leaves you but a good nanny with good references should be with you long term. Be sure to check out references too when employing her and get a good employment contract with perhaps a clause if she leaves within 6 months she has to repay half the cost. A nanny for multiple children is much cheaper than a nursery in many cases depending where you live and lots of flexibility usually on hours .

@Rrrunrunrunrunrun how was it a waste of money? 10 months isn't much short of a year, and you paid for a year's registration for your Nanny? If you'd just paid for her second year and she immediately resigned then yes perhaps, but I presume you've benefitted over the last 10 months?

It's different for childminders and nannies. A childminder needs to be Ofsted registered in order to work, it's not optional. Well actually they can go down another route but basically they must be registered. A nanny does not need to be registered to work, and if they are, it is on the voluntary register, not the compulsory one like childminders. It is of no benefit to Nannies, aside from perhaps making them look more of a favourable candidate to prospective families (as the family then do not need to immediately pay for it if the Nanny already has for some length of time).

A good nanny is like gold. We paid for her Ofsted, we benefited from the old style childcare vouchers. Or whatever support it was at the time.

I did the nanny payroll thing, so tax etc all sorted.

She stayed for 3 years. Kids still miss her. So do I.

I'm an Ofsted registered nanny and I pay for the dbs, first aid and insurance, as I would pay for those regardless of whether or not I was registered - they are just part of working as a professional nanny. If my employers require me to be registered so they can use vouchers/tax free child care, then I ask them to pay the £103 yearly renewal fee.

As a parent you could employ anyone off the street to be your nanny (not like you would) but as an OFSTED approved nanny you bring to the table a candidate who has a childcare qualification, first aid training, is insured and police checked.
I disagree with this statement. I am an Ofsted registered nanny but even if I wasn't ofsted registered, I'd still bring to the table exactly those things. The only thing ofsted does is create a system which allows parents to pay us with the tax free childcare system.
I've always paid for my own DBS + first aid because I feel this is a basic thing to have.
In regards to nanny insurance, of course you should have this as this protects you and is separate to what the family needs. A parent should always pay the £103 ofsted fee because it benefits them and them only. It is completely different to the childminder registration.

Hi there

Hate to drag up a old post

How did it go

Did it all work out?

Thank you

Don’t split the £103. It’s no benefit at all to the nanny to be ofsted reg

its a pita when get paid via vouchers as don’t get paid in one lump sum

you need her to be ofsted

you pay the £103 fee

Ofsted registered nannies are for the employers benefit not the nanny's. It's a voluntary scheme for nannies but if OP as the employer wants to access government schemes to pay part of the cost then the nanny needs to be registered.

But plenty of nannies are not registered.