They want a What???

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Have never heard of a request like that either for home daycare. Not sure if it is something that a daycare centre requires of their employees or not. Personally whether I have anything to hide or not I consider the source and to me this just shows the parents are nervous nellies and/or over suspicious. I know they have their child's best interests at heart but there is more to providing good care that has nothing to do with basically meaningless pieces of paper and anyone that puts their faith in that is a concern. I would probably suggest that since they appear to be very nervous about putting their child into home care that maybe they would prefer to consider a placement in a daycare centre where there are more adults and as such more accountability to each other.

Often once you start talking to a family in this way they either back down or break down and tell you what is really going on and what prompted them for the request. That is where giving them additional references from past clients, etc sometimes puts them at ease or speaking to one of your best clients to let them know their concerns and asking them address it specifically when they call them. When it comes client to prospective client rather than me to a client it helps the new parents a lot.

Until some of these checks are mandatory by law, I am not sure I would be letting prospective clients start to dictate what I will and won't do.