Nanny Background Check

When it comes to the safety and security of our home-life, family members and our children, we are the first to step up and defend those rights and freedoms, interests and guard them with our lives if needed. When choosing care-givers, baby-sitters, live-on or live-out full or part-time caregivers or nannies for our children, we have learnt quickly to rely on technology like the nanny-cam placed unnoticeably in teddy-bears’ eyes or behind bookshelves, in corners etc. BUT when it comes to really being diligent and vigilant on verifying background information we have been notoriously lacking and lazy to do what is required to protect our most precious treasure – our future, our children, our home. So what about the Nanny background check?

Agencies, Sponsored immigration or work or both, local advertisements in the paper, illegal immigrants or migrating, visiting workers, word-of-mouth referrals, retired school-teachers, stay-at-home moms with home-based daycare, even the babysitting teenager on the list by the phone for those emergencies of quick evenings out or trips to the restaurant – do you REALLY KNOW THEM? the list goes on and on and so does the need to verify through expert channels not only work-history but identity verification, employment, employer and employee verifications, credentials, professional reference checks, financial, work-status and status in the country where you reside and she/he will be working.

Tips for moms and dads when screening for a Nanny and running nanny background checks are ample on the web but very little is said about their role as the ‘employers’ of said Nanny, so we at felt it prudent to highlight some guiding principles taken from a page from our US law books and public record: Tips for parent-employers:

1. Educate yourself. Ask around, consult with verification and employment law experts that van offer valuable advice and services that could assist you in this new role.

2. Seek free advice from organizations such as SCORE and the Small Business Administration.

3. Join local business groups and share information with other small business owners and learn from others who have been through the Nanny background check process and experience of having someone “on staff” so to speak

4. If you decide to hire a background checking an verifications services provider or company, make sure the company you hire follows the FCRA guidelines, and all applicable state laws, is reputable and reliable.

5. Be wary of online providers who merely promise to find out anything about anybody, no questions asked. If you consider using an Internet information broker service, learn the total costs involved in checking public records. Bargain prices first quoted could turn out to be more expensive than the services of a reputable background checking company. Remember, if you are checking public records, the more jurisdictions you check, the greater the cost. These are words to the wise to be heeded for sure, consult with the trusted resources at www.peoplefind.com or peoplefind.com/background_search.htm to protect your own! Learn more today, not only about Nanny background checks but all your verification needs.