Tennent wants to use house for childminding

bow74

Leon_W wrote: »

What if a child were injured by something the tenant may have caused but you are responsible for, say a bit of faulty wiring ?


It's a can of worms that as a landlord myself I wouldn't allow.

As a electrician I hope not, but something you cannot forsee may cause a problem and this was exactly the way I was thinking.

But like wise if they are thinking of doing this then they may want to stay for quite a while.
Decisions decisions

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Becoming a childmiinder has become quite a stringent process. The tenant will be expected to make sure the house is safe for children (window locks on windows possibly, plug socket covers, fire extinguisher in kitchen, safety gates plus numerous other things.

If the tenant is wanting to do this, I would expect her to fund any of these items and not go to the LL.

However, depending on demand in her area, it could reduce her income at least initiially. I would be encouraging her to go to some small business meetings or discuss how to deal with income shortfalls with other professional child minders. You don't want to find that she can't pay her rent.

You may find that once she discovers the hoops she'll have to jump through to register as a childminder, she changes her mind. One of the reasons childminders are in short supply in most areas.

Help_So_confused

Indeed childminders have a lot of hoops to jump through, Public Liability Insurance has to be shown to Ofsted, so there is no way a licensed child minder could get around that one. Most childminders I know keep their houses (rented or mortgaged) in very good condition as they have critiques (the parents of the children) visiting them twice a day to pick up children. If a house was dirty/in an uncared condition, any parent would remove their child immediately. Ofsted also visit, as can the Food Standard Agency, both at any time with no notice. Quite often a person becomes a childminder because they have a young child(ren), so it makes more sense in some cases to earn a small living bringing up your own child too, quite often they are not the breadwinner. (but not in all cases) Childminders are also limited by Ofsted on the numbers of children they can have and in which age groups. A childminder may have many children on their books, but in reality, 1 child may come 6 hours a week, of which they are out of the house for most of them. Another may come for 15 hours a week, again quite often half of those hours will be out of the house too. Quite a lot of childminders only have 2/3 part time children a week. Childminders tend to be a caring lot, who are quite worried about how they and their homes appear to others. They are unlikely to rent a house where they could not afford the rent, as this would be dreadful for business as a parent is not going to ask every 6 months, oh where do I drop my child off this week? They also often need the security of longer term rents. Also most childminders are also very aware of their neighbours and try to teach the children they care for to be respectful towards them by not making too much noise.