Locator Devices Enhance Background Checks

I blogged on April 2, 2007 on the new, nationwide searches available via our affiliate 4nannies.com to aid in background checking a nanny or other household worker.

Verifications Inc., the vendor who provides 4nannies.com's background check services, has an excellent article titled Using Locator Devices to Enhance a Criminal Record Search that details the strengths and weaknesses of the national records searches.

4nannies.com strongly encourages families to utilize the locator devices in conjunction with in-court records searches, never instead of in-court records searches.

Families - always thoroughly investigate before you hire! Your children are depending it you.

Enhanced Background Investigative Tools Available

4nannies.com, the on-line nanny recruiting site, announces that a National Criminal Records Locator and a National Sex Offender Registry Search are now available to hiring families. 4nannies.com's on-line nanny recruiting experience emphasizes "Safety First."

These new investigative tools allow families to economically include "broad net" search options, commonly used by HR professionals, in their nanny screening.

The National Criminal Records Locator, maintained by 4nannies.com partner Verifications Inc., is a proprietary database containing over 200 million criminal records. If there is a "hit" in the database, an in-court criminal records search will be obtained.

The National Sex Offender Registry Search (NSOR) is recommended as part of any childcare or eldercare background screening to reduce the risk of hiring someone with a prior history of sex offenses. The NSOR accesses public information from every state made available through the U.S. Department of Justice. The NSOR search provides a comprehensive, nationwide alternative to a single state sex offender search.

HomeWork Solutions, along with 4nannies.com, strongly encourages families to conduct thorough pre-employment screening before leaving any individual in sole charge of their children. This includes a thorough interview, obtaining a formal job application, verifying all references [and not accepting family members as references], and conducting a criminal background search.

HomeWork Solutions publishes TIP SHEETS to assist families in recruiting, screening, hiring, and setting up the nanny payroll.