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TLC's Full Service Operations Manual

What is a full service child care agency?

A full service agency provides a variety of in-home child care services including:
  • Nanny Placements:
    full and part time, live-in, live-out, summer, after school, and short term
  • Temporary Services:
    temporary nannies, evening baby sitting, sick child care, hotel sitters, group care, overnight care, day care substitutes, and convention group child care.
  • Doula Service:
    newborn and postpartum care
What are the benefits of a full service agency?

Opening a full service in-home child care agency can provide you with a rewarding and lucrative business and will provide your community with much needed valuable services. Clients and caregivers alike will appreciate the diversity of services available under one roof. You will find that a full service agency can generate a significant income, attract media exposure, satisfy many of your clients' needs, and help keep nanny applicants busy with work.

How will the TLC Manual help me?

The TLC manual is the most up-to-date and comprehensive business start-up manual in this country. This manual will provide you with a very detailed account of how to run a successful agency. Similarly, utilizing our systems and the information and forms included in the manual will save you time, money and mistakes. TLC has been in business since 1985 and has been consulting and helping launch new businesses for over 10 years. Our regular attendance at industry conferences and our affiliation with top agencies nationwide, investigation companies and household tax experts keep us up-to-date on all new industry trends.

What is included in the TLC Manual?

The manual includes a detailed discussion of the operating procedures and all of the paperwork TLC For Kids uses to run its very successful agency including forms and contracts. Areas covered include: recruiting, interviewing, orientation, customer service, staff relations, pricing and billing, marketing, public relations, advertising, and the internet.

Forms Include:
  • Parent materials: Parent applications, cover letter, service agreement, follow-up letters, parent information workbook, intent to hire form, service evaluation forms, customer service cards, temporary service registration, hotel reservation form, nanny/family agreement, Doula application, and more.
  • Caregiver materials: Application, personal/health profile, child care questionnaires, oral interview questions, caregiver procedures manual, follow-up letters, time cards, activity logs, non-compete agreement, interviewing tips, caregiver rules and regulations handbook, nanny/family agreement and negotiating tips and much more.

To purchase the package, please send your check or credit card information with a completed order form/contract to:


TLC For Kids, Inc.
7301 Tulane
St. Louis, MO 63130.

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