How to Screen Your Nanny

Screening your nanny and ensuring the safety of your children is now easy with the number of online records available to you. By accessing online records such as court and criminal records, you can quickly discover if your potential nanny will be a suitable for the care of your children.

Protecting Your Children

When hiring professionals to care for your children, you want to be sure that you aren't bringing someone into your home that is dangerous. Today you can easily screen childcare professionals before they ever come into contact with your children. By accessing public records online, you can ensure your new nanny has a clean background with no criminal history, including sexual crimes.

Screening Online

There are a number of records you can find online that will aide you in screening the background of your potential new childcare provider. The best sources of information are criminal records, a part of court records. These are reliable records archived by the government that will provide you with a criminal history of the individual you are researching. All court records are public, except for juvenile records and records sealed by the judge in special cases.

Court Records

Criminal court records will give you a detailed criminal history of your potential new nanny. These records will tell you trial resolutions, the warrant for arrest, pleadings, trial transcripts, trial proceedings and the complaint or petition for a case. If the individual you are researching has as sexual crime history, you will find it here. Court records will also include civil court case files.

Driving Records

Driving records are especially valuable during the pre-employment process. If your new nanny is going to be driving your child or children, then you will also want to check out their driving records. Driving records can usually be accessed online, through the state's Department of Motor Vehicles or similar department.

Information found on a driving records includes:

  • Tickets and fines
  • If fines were paid late or on time
  • DUI's and DWI's
  • Suspended licenses
  • Traffic accidents
  • County where offenses occurred
  • Last reported address
If you discover that your potential new nanny has failed to pay fines, has been ticketed for reckless driving or has been found at fault for multiple accidents, then you will probably not want to employ them. Screening your nanny's driving records is a good idea even if they will not be behind the wheel with your child.

Performing a background check on your nanny by researching their court records and driving records will ensure that you are not letting a dangerous individual come into contact with your child. The screening can be down easily right at your fingertips online.

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