Nanny Employer Blog

You might have seen one of the two news segments this last week featuring Mom’s Best Friend and our background checks partner, CSIdentity. View Fox segment | View CBS segment

We are very excited to roll out this new program for our clients which will incorporate the most comprehensive checks now available. We believe that we are the first in our industry to introduce this type of check into the screening process, thus guaranteeing our client families tremendous peace of mind.

This new firm we have partnered with, CSIdentity, searches more than 350 million unique identity records for criminal histories, which accounts for 70 million criminal identities in its database versus the FBI which has 55 million. New to our screening are two added features now possible through CSIentity:

• Identity Authentication: validating the identity of each candidate through a series of questions that only that candidate would be able to accurately answer
• Ongoing Monitoring: monthly monitoring that continues to ensure the candidate maintains a clear criminal background.

This last feature is at no additional cost to our clients and continues for the entire duration of employment between the client and caregiver. We are so pleased to be able to offer this unique and exhaustive background checks package to our valued clients.

Mom’s Best Friend has been active in helping to create standards for our industry through the International Nanny Association (www.nanny.org) and The Alliance for Premier Nanny Agencies (www.theapna.com) in the realm of background checks so that there is consistency across the country in this arena, thereby protecting families and children from substandard screening. Let us know what you think about our new offerings!