Can a childminder travel to your home to care for your kids while you wfh?
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Exception listed on official site
"for vital family reasons including caring for children, elderly or vulnerable people but excluding social family visits"
"for vital family reasons including caring for children, elderly or vulnerable people but excluding social family visits"
Hmm, I would interpret that to mean only if you are a family member of same... not if you are providing it as service.
IF you are providing it as a service, childminding is not listed as an exception:
It's a judgement call.
I have 3 kids at home looking after themselves while I'm at work.
The youngest would normally go to a minder but I consider that to be an unacceptable risk so wouldn't dream of sending her out or letting someone from another household in.
I have 3 kids at home looking after themselves while I'm at work.
The youngest would normally go to a minder but I consider that to be an unacceptable risk so wouldn't dream of sending her out or letting someone from another household in.
Hmm, I would interpret that to mean only if you are a family member of same... not if you are providing it as service.
IF you are providing it as a service, childminding is not listed as an exception:
Here is what the goverment website says. "There are exceptions for some workers in key businesses but for the majority of people, the rule is simple: Stay at home". They then list the exceptions, one of which is "including caring for children". I believe that is clearly saying that people can get a child minder "for vital family reasons including caring for children". That is from the goverment website gov.ie. That's pretty clear to me.
It's not clearly saying it, maybe it is an oversight that this wasn't listed but childminding is not listed as an essential business service.
It is an exceptional reason for a family member / individual -> not an exceptional reason for someone providing a paid service.
The childminder providing a business service falls under the category "to travel to and from work where the work is considered an essential service" and childminding is not listed there.
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That wasn't specified by the Taoiseach but he did speak about childminders in the home of essential workers. He said that there was some risk with it but that essential workers were needed in their roles.
In the spirit of the measures that are in place at the moment I wouldn't expect the situation you outline to be included. However it probably isn't specified anywhere.
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My wife is a director of nursing and I am working with a pharma company that have been deemed critical. Both of us have to keep going. We had to look for someone who can carry out childminding for us. So we got girl who's just around the corner and who's whole family have been mostly staying home with weeks now. Surely she is deemed essential, otherwise we can't work. It must be the same for many families around the country. If childminding was completely stopped there would be a significant number of workers who would suddenly have to start minding kids instead of carrying out essential work.
I seriously doubt anyone is going to have a problem with childminding in these situations. The measures are all about reducing the risk as much as possible but not completely eradicating the risk.
I seriously doubt anyone is going to have a problem with childminding in these situations. The measures are all about reducing the risk as much as possible but not completely eradicating the risk.
Yes, she is. This is the point the Taoiseach made yesterday.
It might not be what some want to hear and others will certainly not like it, but there's thousands and thousands of grandparents minding their grandchildren. In most cases there's no choice and yes I understand well the dangers or whatever you want to call it that's involved.
Official list of essential activies says
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I'm fairly sure that was not in the original list and is an addition - but eitherway this confirms that you should only have childminders travelling to your home if you are an essential worker.
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- non-centre based childcare for those providing essential services
I'm fairly sure that was not in the original list and is an addition - but eitherway this confirms that you should only have childminders travelling to your home if you are an essential worker.
Here is a link to the most recent version snapshot (Mar 30th) that was captured by the way back when machine, and this bullet was not in the original publication. So they have updated the list to make this clearer.
I've said it before, but anyone who's working right now in Ireland Is an essential worker. Lets not differentiate.
I'd qualify that with "anyone working outside their home".
I'm working from home. That doesn't make me essential.
The original question was in relation having a childminder come to house while working from home.