What You Need to Know About Child Care

Posted on: 25 July 2018

While sourcing out potential nannies for your child, you will face a lot of challenges and dilemmas, especially while deciding whether to hire an individual contracting nanny or to use a nanny agency instead. Below is a list of ways in which using a nanny agency to hire nanny services is easier and more convenient for you.

Time Saving

A nanny agency usually acts as your personal assistant and intermediary. After you have come up with the list of things and features you are looking for in your future nanny, the nanny agency will go through its files to find the perfect match for you. It will be responsible for conducing the interviews, background checks and every other tests the nanny has to go through. You will then receive the best candidate whom you will accept or decline. Either way, you will have been saved the long processes that you will otherwise have to do by yourself while hiring an individual contracting nanny.

Safety

A nanny agency is required to carry out thorough background and criminal checks on all its nannies. Even with the slightest criminal record, an individual could be disqualified from being a nanny. You could carry out the checks yourself but a nanny agency will have connections with the police and government who will help in assuring that all the records produced are real. Hiring an individual contracting nanny may be very risky for your child especially if the nanny turns out to have malicious intentions.

Feedback

Hiring a nanny through a hiring agency allows you to give feedback which is not only important to you but to the nanny agency and other potential clients as well. Once you get a nanny for your child, you can raise complaints or give compliments, which will allow the nanny to improve or maintain their standard of work. With a sole contracting nanny however, the complaints may be ignored since the nanny is their own boss.

Payment consistency

A nanny agency aims to serve you its client and the nanny's that it finds jobs for. The prices that you will be required to pay therefore will be standardized prices that are fair and constant. On the other hand, a solo contractor can be unpredictable when it comes to payment. They may ask for their money in instalments that are not affordable for you or in times when you had not prepared yourself. They may threaten to show up for work the following day forcing you to pay them unexpectedly. To avoid this inconveniences use a nanny agency.