Are nanny shares legal in Maryland for now?

[Anonymous]

I know that childcare regulations are relaxed right now due to COVID and the Governor's executive orders, but does anyone know if that includes nanny shares?

[Anonymous]

I'd love to know because we want to do one instead of preschool for the fall. But I can't figure out how to make the pay work legally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd love to know because we want to do one instead of preschool for the fall. But I can't figure out how to make the pay work legally.

Also, if it is legal now, will that expire at the end of Phase 3?

[Anonymous]

Were they not legal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were they not legal?

Correct. They are not legal because childcare is being provided for someone outside their home.

Nannies are legal if it’s for a single family in that child’s home. Otherwise it’s essentially unlicensed daycare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they not legal?

Correct. They are not legal because childcare is being provided for someone outside their home.

Nannies are legal if it’s for a single family in that child’s home. Otherwise it’s essentially unlicensed daycare.

And Maryland has strict in-home daycare regulations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they not legal?

Correct. They are not legal because childcare is being provided for someone outside their home.

Nannies are legal if it’s for a single family in that child’s home. Otherwise it’s essentially unlicensed daycare.

Wow. I did not know it wasn't even legal for two families to do a share. That's crazy.

[Anonymous]

They are legal. You guys are nut and not understanding restictions at all.

[Anonymous]

They are legal, though the idea that they are not is an Internet rumor that refuses to die.

Legal before, now, and likely forever.

[Anonymous]

“ Informal child care is when a friend, relative, or nanny cares for a child in the family home or in his or her own home, receives no compensation of any kind for providing care, or provides care for less than 20 hours per month.

Formal child care includes child care centers and family child care homes. OCC has standards for these facilities to be licensed or registered. Providers who are not licensed or registered are offering illegal and potentially dangerous child care.”

https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/child-care-providers/office-child-care

Nannies do not have to be licensed to care for a child in their own home. The host child in a share is fine. The other child is the issue, and that makes it an unlicensed home daycare, per Maryland government. I think that makes it pretty clear.