CM CLUB: Please help me with this grey area?

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My friend and her DB live with her mum and dad.
Theyre buying a new house..together the 4 of them..friend is planning a baby and wants her mum to look after it meaning mum will give up her 3 part time jobs.

i asked a while back if friend could claim tax credits for mum as a cm/nanny and thought id found that she couldnt..however at my eyfs course a lady there was actually doing it!..course tutor said you can get paid as a cm for your grandchildren as long as you show you WOULD take on other children too...so what about a nanny?..course totor thinks its the same in that mum can help out friend and be apid, but who would be best to ask? ILR?..its such a grey area i think id confuse them?

not sure who you'd ask how about surestart -
it's true that grandparents can get paid though as long as they are ofsted registered

Nanny no, but CM yes.

The OFSTED registration process for nannies excludes blood relatives as far as I'm aware.

Found this on a Government site in relation to tax credits

Childcare cannot be provided:

• By a relative of the children in the children?s own home, or
• By a relative in the relative?s own home, unless other children to whom the childcarer is not related, are usually cared for as well. This applies even though the childcarer would otherwise be approved under the above rules.

I don't think it is possible - though stranger things happen.

The child and the carer will both be resident at the same property. Childminders don't get help from tax credits, for caring for their own children... so how is this really any different? As you say, it's a grey area. I would suggest getting something in writing from Tax Credits, and even then, a year or so later, tax credits may change their mind.
It's probably not worth the risks... better that your friend finds a local childminder, who is totally unrelated.