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Hiring
Find a babysitter in Melbourne: where to look, and what to check first
Where Melbourne families find casual babysitters, and what Victoria's Working with Children Check actually requires. The order to do things in, so the first booking is not the first time you meet.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
Getting started
Requirements to become a babysitter in Australia: what each state asks for
No state licenses babysitters. What changes at each border is the check: its name, its price, and whether private babysitting needs one at all. Every state and territory in one table, and the three things families ask for everywhere.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
The law
How old do you have to be to babysit in Australia: the ages people ask about
No state sets a minimum age for babysitting. What the law does say, what families actually do at 12, 13, 14 and 16, and the four questions people ask. Each has a different answer.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
Rates
Overnight babysitting rates: how a night is priced, and what to agree first
An overnight is the one babysitting job not priced by the hour. How families and babysitters split a night into awake hours and a sleeping block. What a waking child changes, and what to settle before the door closes.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 4 min read
Safety checks
Working with Children Check in Victoria: what babysitters and parents need to know
Who needs a Victorian WWC Check, what it costs, how to apply. How a parent checks a babysitter's card in two minutes with Service Victoria's free checker.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
Getting started
Babysitting jobs for teens in Sydney (2026)
Where a 16-year-old's first babysitting jobs in Sydney actually come from, the hours a teenager can sell, and what to charge. How to get home, and what your own parents will want to know.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 9 min read
Getting started
How to become a nanny in Australia (2026)
There is no licence to be a nanny, but you must hold a Working With Children Check. Then a first aid course, an award floor for the pay, and a first role. The order to do it in.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 6 min read
Getting started
Babysitter resume: what to put on it, with a template
How to write a babysitting resume in Australia: the three lines a parent actually reads, and a one-page template to copy. Then how to put babysitting or nanny work on a resume for another job.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 8 min read
Hiring
Find a babysitter in Sydney: where to look, and what to check first
Where Sydney families find casual babysitters, what each route does and does not check for you, and the order to do things in. So the first booking is not the first time you meet.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 8 min read
Getting started
How to become a babysitter in Sydney (2026)
What you need to start babysitting in Sydney: the age question, when NSW requires a Working With Children Check, and which first aid course to do. How to get the check, and how to land the first job.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 9 min read
Rates
How much should I charge? A guide for Sydney babysitters and nannies (2026)
Where Sydney babysitting and nanny rates sit in 2026, how to price three kids against one, and the legal floor once the work turns regular.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 6 min read
Rates
What a nanny costs in Australia (2026)
Nannies in Sydney and Melbourne start at $30 to $35 an hour, counted from 215 profiles. Here is what a day or a full week costs, and what sits on top.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 7 min read
Hiring
How to find and hire a nanny in Sydney
Finding a nanny is a hiring decision, not a booking. Where to look in Sydney, what to check, and what to put in writing before the first day.
Matt Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
Safety checks
Questions to ask a babysitter before the first booking
A Working With Children Check is the part somebody else can verify for you. Everything that matters after that, you have to ask about yourself. The questions worth asking, and what a good answer sounds like.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 7 min read
Rates
Babysitting rates in Australia: what sitters charge in 2026
What babysitters in Sydney and Melbourne ask per hour, counted from 281 listed rates, the legal minimum in every state, and what moves a rate.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 7 min read
The law
Babysitter vs nanny: what NSW law actually requires
A privately arranged babysitter in your own home doesn't legally need a Working With Children Check. A nanny does, and you are expected to verify it. Where the line sits, and why.
Matt Lewandowski · Updated · 5 min read
Safety checks
How to check a babysitter's WWCC (NSW parent's guide)
Anyone can verify a NSW Working With Children Check for free in about two minutes. What you need before you start, and what each result means.
Kelly Lewandowski · Updated · 8 min read
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