Nanny Share in DC - License required?

[Anonymous]

Hello, my wife is was presented a contract for nanny share of two children from two family. According to friends, we were told we do not need to obtain a license since it was only two children. But we researched the law on OSSE and it seems we are classified as a Child Development Home. Does my wife need a license to be a Nanny Share at our home for two children from separate families?

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

If you (or your spouse) are caring for children in your home, it’s a home daycare, not a nanny share. Yes, home daycares should be licensed, but it’s not going to happen right now.

[Anonymous]

Having a nanny share in your home don’t require
A license

[Anonymous]

Better check with your home insurance agent, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having a nanny share in your home don’t require
A license

If you can for unrelated children in your home, it’s a home daycare not a nanny share. And yes, it should be regulated.

[Anonymous]

Nanny here who does nanny shares in DC. No license was ever acquired, mentioned or presented. I worked in the share for 2 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here who does nanny shares in DC. No license was ever acquired, mentioned or presented. I worked in the share for 2 years.

In your home? Or one of the families homes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Having a nanny share in your home don’t require
A license

If you can for unrelated children in your home, it’s a home daycare not a nanny share. And yes, it should be regulated.

Agreed. A Nanny share is when one of the families hosts, or they rotate. Taking them home on occasion for some reason is fine, like you have to be at home for plumber or something. BUt watching the kids in your home on a regular basis makes you an in home daycare.

[Anonymous]

Could someone please post a link to the law.... I babysit one child occasionally in my home does that make me a daycare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could someone please post a link to the law.... I babysit one child occasionally in my home does that make me a daycare?

https://osse.dc.gov/page/licensing-process-child-care-providers

A home daycare is defined as (regularly scheduled) care for any children (unrelated to you) in your home. The number is specified only to distinguish between small (up to 6) and large (6-12) home daycares. If you are in the child’s home, you’re fine.

https://osse.dc.gov/service/licensing-and-compliance

DC has exemptions built in for nanny shares and occasional (not regularly scheduled) babysitting in your home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could someone please post a link to the law.... I babysit one child occasionally in my home does that make me a daycare?

https://osse.dc.gov/page/licensing-process-child-care-providers

A home daycare is defined as (regularly scheduled) care for any children (unrelated to you) in your home. The number is specified only to distinguish between small (up to 6) and large (6-12) home daycares. If you are in the child’s home, you’re fine.

https://osse.dc.gov/service/licensing-and-compliance

DC has exemptions built in for nanny shares and occasional (not regularly scheduled) babysitting in your home.

Where is the DC nanny share exemption? I’m not finding it.

[Anonymous]

Op, you should be fine; there’s nothing that specifically states that a child caregiver (nanny) is required to have a license caring for 2 children in someone else’s home. However, as a household employer, you are required to have worker comp insurance— if you chose not to, then you can be responsible for all out of pocket expenses may your household employee becomes hurt on the job.

I know tons of nanny share arrangements where they nanny is paid on the books— including myself and we haven’t had any issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could someone please post a link to the law.... I babysit one child occasionally in my home does that make me a daycare?

https://osse.dc.gov/page/licensing-process-child-care-providers

A home daycare is defined as (regularly scheduled) care for any children (unrelated to you) in your home. The number is specified only to distinguish between small (up to 6) and large (6-12) home daycares. If you are in the child’s home, you’re fine.

https://osse.dc.gov/service/licensing-and-compliance

DC has exemptions built in for nanny shares and occasional (not regularly scheduled) babysitting in your home.

Where is the DC nanny share exemption? I’m not finding it.

Second link:

“ If you do not meet any of the exempted categories below, then you need to apply for a license. The exemptions are:

Occasional babysitting in a babysitter’s home or a child’s home for the children of one family;
Care provided in a child’s home by a caregiver paid for by a child’s family;
Care provided for more than one child in a Nanny-Share, as defined in this chapter;”

But since the first link says that childcare in the childcare provider’s home is a home daycare, it needs to be licensed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nanny here who does nanny shares in DC. No license was ever acquired, mentioned or presented. I worked in the share for 2 years.

In your home? Or one of the families homes?

One of the families home. The other family dropped their child off.