Can I nanny from my own home?

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I was a nanny for 10 years and loved it whenmy children were born I became a childminder and even though I still love the practical side I hate having to jump through ofsteds hoops and all the paperwork. I was seriously considerin giving up in Sept esp as I have my inspection due in 2010 and I know I am going from outstanding to satisfactory if I am lucky, unsatisfactory if i am not. I told my 2 mindees families that I am thinking of stopping and they have both said they want to employ me as a private nanny working from my own home. Does this exist? If it does I would still have all the insurances and first aid, child protection etc in place. Would love to hear if this is possible as like the parents I have say the care they are receiving would be exactly the same if I wasn't a reg childminder, but a reg nanny.
Please give me your honest opinions if you think this can be done. TIA

I dont think you can do this, im sure as a nanny you have to be employed and work at the familys home.

I was a nanny by the way before i had my dc,s and now im thinking of becoming a registered childminder but only thing putting me off is all the inspections and paperwork but i suppose you get used to it.

no you cant be a nanny in your own home

you can be a cm in your home,be self employed and have tons of paperwork or be a nanny and employed in someones home

To do this at your own home would be illegal Childminding.
Why can't you carry on as a childminder? The EYFS isn't scary, you only have to look at the posts on here to see that many many childminders are coping admirably and my inspection In dec went really well. I maintained my GOOD grade And also got 6 areas of outstanding
You may think you have to jump thru hoops, but as an outstanding childminder already, your probably doing most of the stuff already.

Thats the thing I have been on maternity leave so haven't done any efys and don't reallyknow where to start. I had only been a cm for 6 months before inspection and haven't done that much b23 either so no clue where to start

Have you got your pack?
Book yourself on a course or contact your coordinator and ask for a visit. I'm sure she will be able to offer you some advice. Or you could ask childminder collegues about it too.

Is there a limit childminders can charge? Can you stay as a registered childminder but charge 'nanny rates' and just look after the children for the two families? I'm sure there's probably rules about that so I'm sure someone will advise soon if that's a no go!

Yes, the limit you can charge as a childminder is £0.01 or anything of equivalent value (inclding flowers, chocolates and reciprocal childcare!)

Seriously, anyone looking after children over the age of 8 in their own home for more than 2 hours per day has for any kind of payment or reward has to be a registered childminder (close relations exempted)

A Childminder can charge as much as she likes, and if the families are happy to employ you with a satisfactory then whats the problem, as long as you a compliant legally.

But surely this isn't just about the money side? Its the work load and the amount of red tape that has to be completed as a childminder.
I'm in a similar situation and trying to find out about nannying for a friend. You can nanny share for two families but would have to be employed by both sets of parents....it gets complicated

Not really,if you use a company eg nannytax to sort the wage side of things

I'd me more about nannying for a friend than the nanny share bit!

Make sure you have a contract etc, and do everything as you would if it wasn't a friend.

be more i mean !

The differences between Childminder and Nanny are very simply put as:

Childminder - care for one or more children from one or more families in their [the childminders] own home.

Nanny - cares for one or more children from the same family, or from two families and provides such care at the families own home.

This is defined in Legislation - currently The Childcare Act 2006. It would be very hard to get this law changed, as we have had legislation of this type in England since 1948.