weird one this, need advice.

[misdee]

we have a new carer

he is an old friend of the family, grew up with him, not close friend though.

he is offering to sit round here after his work hours so i can take girls out (this is additional to scheduled hours) we wont be paying, he says its a favour.

legally, is there a problem with this. its a specialised trained carer, I dont mind the offer, its nice to know there is someone out there who sees we need more than allocated at times, but dont want him to lose his job.

i think that of he is VAD trained, and a friend, then it should be ok.

Surely it wouldnt be any different from MIL sitting with Peter for an hour or so?

i'm just worried about issues regarding insurences etc. he wont be covered working here outside of hours, but is that going to be a problem? he is very keyed on the machine, has done loads of extra reading, and research etc, so no worried there. just me beign panicing i guess.

I think your right to worried about insurance, both my MIL and SIL are nurses but have been told not to attend to accidents when not on duty because of the insurance.

mmmm I can't see it being any different to MIL sitting with him surely.

you and peter can decide to let anyone / no one care for him if you choose...... wouldnt be illegal, just fooloish......
if this man cares for him outside working hours, as a friend doing a favour he wont be insured / you wont be able to complain in any way to his employers if it all goes wrong.....
but that's the extent of it....
you may want to say to him "if your employers found out what you are doing would they have a problem with it / would you be in trouble? so as to ensure he's considered this?
hth

Take the extra help. Seems to me that with all the stuff you have going on in your life, something that might happen and might result in an insurance issue, is probably fairly minor in your big picture of things. Especially as he is an old family friend.