Child Day-Care employment contract

Live-Out Nanny Employment Contract UK

Define consistent family childcare around agreed hours, child-focused duties and clear household boundaries.

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This page is maintained for UK employers creating nanny (live out) contracts for child day-care. HRHeaven uses a legally validated and solicitor-approved self-service contract framework, with wording for role duties, confidentiality, notice, holiday, probation and practical workplace expectations. It does not replace individual legal advice for complex or disputed circumstances.

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19 June 2026
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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.

Role-specific duties

Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.

Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

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When to use this contract

Maintain consistent dependable family childcare, deliver organised child routines and activities, and deliver clear daily parent handovers.

Workplace context: Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering children workplace hours and overtime. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering routines collections activities and travel. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering food medicine expenses and child duties. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering home privacy keys holidays and handover. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering safeguarding.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The nanny cannot accept extra children, make major care decisions, administer unapproved medicine or use family property outside permission. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the children schedules and care approach
  • the working overtime and babysitting pattern
  • the travel vehicle and expense terms
  • the health food and emergency instructions
  • the household privacy and communication rules

Day-to-day operating brief

What Nanny (Live Out) work looks like in practice

A Live-Out Nanny provides regular care in the family home while living elsewhere, often managing meals, routines, school or nursery runs, activities and child-related household tasks. Terms should identify children, place and hours, overtime and babysitting, collections, car use, expenses, food and allergies, medicine, outings, holidays and family travel, child laundry and tidying, home access, keys, privacy, photographs, sickness, emergency authority and daily communication.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Provide care meals play and routines.
  • Manage authorised collections outings and activities.
  • Complete agreed child-related household tasks.
  • Follow health safeguard and emergency instructions.
  • Record expenses incidents and daily handover.

A realistic working scenario

A parent asks the nanny to collect an unlisted child and bring them into the home. The employee verifies authority, capacity and arrangements rather than extending care informally.

Outputs to agree

  • consistent dependable family childcare
  • organised child routines and activities
  • clear daily parent handovers

Records and evidence

  • Child schedule collection and contact.
  • Meal activity sleep and care.
  • Expense mileage medicine and incident.
  • Key property communication and handover.
  • Child records.
  • Attendance records.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Nursery Manager, Room Leader, SENCO or Early Years Lead. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The nanny cannot accept extra children, make major care decisions, administer unapproved medicine or use family property outside permission.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Early-years record systems.
  • Learning observation tools.
  • Nursery communication systems.
  • Play and learning equipment.

Workplace context

  • Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

Training and certification

  • Complete employer-required safeguarding training.

Contract priorities

  • children workplace hours and overtime
  • routines collections activities and travel
  • food medicine expenses and child duties
  • home privacy keys holidays and handover

Information the employer should prepare

  • the children schedules and care approach
  • the working overtime and babysitting pattern
  • the travel vehicle and expense terms
  • the health food and emergency instructions
  • the household privacy and communication rules

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Nanny (Live Out) contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for child day-care work.

Work setting

Nursery, childcare, early years or approved education premises.

Primary duties

  • Provide care meals play and routines.
  • Manage authorised collections outings and activities.
  • Complete agreed child-related household tasks.
  • Follow health safeguard and emergency instructions.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Early-years record systems.
  • Learning observation tools.
  • Nursery communication systems.
  • Play and learning equipment.

Governance focus

Ofsted context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering children workplace hours and overtime. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering routines collections activities and travel. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering food medicine expenses and child duties.

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Nanny (Live Out) clauses and builder inputs

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Role wording

Nanny (Live Out) duties

Maintain consistent dependable family childcare, deliver organised child routines and activities, and deliver clear daily parent handovers.

Provide care meals play and routines. Manage authorised collections outings and activities. Complete agreed child-related household tasks. Follow health safeguard and emergency instructions. Record expenses incidents and daily handover.

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What is added to the finished contract

The nanny cannot accept extra children, make major care decisions, administer unapproved medicine or use family property outside permission.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering children workplace hours and overtime.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering routines collections activities and travel.

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Frequently asked questions

What duties can a nanny perform?

List child care and child-related household tasks precisely.

Is babysitting included?

State frequency, notice, hours and payment separately.

Can the nanny use their car?

Define licence, insurance, seats, mileage and maintenance.

Who pays activity costs?

Use advances, cards, limits, receipts and reimbursement.

Can medicine be given?

Only under parental authority, competence and records.

Are family holidays included?

Define travel, accommodation, duties, rest and expenses.

Who may enter the family home?

Use clear visitor, contractor and key-control rules.

What is handed over?

Meals, routines, activities, health, expenses and incidents.

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