Ofsted registration help

[Ragingoverlife]

I'm currently self employed and I'm a carer of SEN children. I'm also ofsted registered as a home carer. The reason for this is that my work is short term based on families needs. Children that are waiting on school placements etc Most of the children I support are children that have received funding to employ a personal assistant / carer and I work for an agency providing care for multiple children in home short term.

For children that don't receive funding I have one child that I care for from home or out and about in the community. I don't care for children in my home.

I've been approached for further children, my understanding is that nannies can have a maximum of 2 families at the same time. Now I'm trying to figure out if this is at the same time consecutively as in looking after them both on a Monday or whether it's half the week with one and half the week with the other. Due to my role I do not have multiple kids at the same time like a childminder but it says if you care for 3 or more families you need to register as a childminder.

So can anyone tell me if I can still be registered as a home carer/ nanny if I work with 3 kids on different days (that aren't part of my carer / personal assistant role) I don't want to be a childminder. My rate is set the same across the board set as the same rate that direct payments pay (currently 16.96p/h ) childminders would charge less per hour as they usually have multiple children at once which makes their hourly rate.

I've been approached for further children, my understanding is that nannies can have a maximum of 2 families at the same time.

The key thing there is at the same time. So if you are caring for a child in the morning, and then going to a different family in the afternoon, then that is NOT at the same time. If you care for a child from one family (Family A), and a child from another family (Family B)... caring for all the children at the home of Family A, then that is at the same time.

You do not care for multiple children at the same time, so it is not an issue.

Thank you. This is how i read it but others were saying differently. I have trawled so many different websites with no fixed answer. Most 'nannies' are employed by one or 2 families and work with them for a number of years so I'm not a long term nanny or a childminder. I'm an adhoc carer / in home carer who only deal with disabilities so it makes sense to be self employed or my payroll would be very messy indeed.