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Finding Childcare in Las Vegas: The Complete Guide

TL;DR

Las Vegas families can book six types of in-home care through Lifetime of Love Nannies Las Vegas, a multi-state agency's local branch. Booking starts with a family phone call, and every caregiver is a W-2 employee with 10-tier screening. Since 2019 it has provided over 300,000 hours of care for kids of all ages and needs.

What childcare options do Las Vegas families have?

Six types of in-home care are available to Las Vegas families through Lifetime of Love Nannies. Each covers a different situation, and every caregiver behind them clears the agency's screening.

A family can start with an occasional sitter booking and later move to a designated weekly nanny as its needs grow. Parents who need care at night or around a rotating shift can read the 24 hour childcare guide and the guide for casino and hospitality workers.

What nanny services are available in Las Vegas?

Lifetime of Love Nannies provides nanny services across Las Vegas, staffed by caregivers the agency employs on W-2 and screens across ten tiers. The agency pairs recurring families with a designated nanny, a caregiver who stays with the family week after week. Families are not asked to pay a large upfront placement fee or sign a long-term contract with the nanny. Founder Carson Wagner describes the model as an agency incentivized to make care lasting and long term.

Care requests range from a few hours of evening babysitting to full-time weekly schedules. Same-day requests are accommodated when availability allows.

How does booking through a Las Vegas nanny agency work?

A family phone call opens the process, then a website profile, then individual booking requests.

  1. Family phone call. The family meets with the agency to walk through its needs and any accommodations, so the right nanny gets placed with the right family.
  2. Profile setup. The family creates a website profile with its children's details and care preferences.
  3. Booking requests. The family submits dates, times, and specific requests, and can name a preferred nanny when one is available.

If a caregiver cancels, the agency fills the slot so the family still has care. Published membership plans:

  • Date Night membership: $50 per month, up to 4 bookings a month with no booking fee.
  • Unlimited membership: $110 per month, unlimited bookings and a designated nanny for weekly schedules.
  • Non-members: a $30 fee per booking, with no membership required.

Memberships are cancellable with thirty-day notice and do not include the nanny's hourly rate. The nanny agency cost guide adds up the fees and the hourly rate for different booking patterns.

How are Las Vegas nannies screened and trained?

Every caregiver on the agency's team passes a 10-tier screening before taking a booking. The ten tiers, as published by the agency, are:

  • Phone interview
  • Reference check
  • Face to face interview
  • Employee training
  • CPR and First Aid certification
  • SIDS certification
  • Criminal background screen
  • Driving record check
  • Social security trace
  • Sex offender registry check

For comparison, according to childcare.gov's staff background check guide, licensed child care programs must run an FBI fingerprint check and a National Sex Offender Registry search. That federal list doubles as a baseline set of questions when comparing providers.

Screening is the entry point, and training continues after hiring. Caregivers complete the agency's nanny training school, with modules on safe sleep, swim and heat safety, developmental milestones, parent communication, and emergency response. The safe sleep module follows guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reports that most sleep-related infant deaths are due to sudden infant death syndrome or accidental suffocation.

Who employs the nanny, the family or the agency?

Lifetime of Love Nannies employs its caregivers as W-2 employees and handles their payroll and taxes. According to IRS Topic 756, household workers are a family's employees when the family controls the work and how it is done. For those taxes, the IRS has the employer and the employee each paying 7.65 percent of wages.

A family that hires on its own becomes a household employer with those duties. Booking through the agency keeps the employment relationship, the training, and the performance reviews with the agency. The company is licensed, bonded, and insured. The W-2 employment article goes deeper on what that model means for families.

Which parts of Las Vegas does in-home care cover?

Care is available across the Las Vegas Valley, including Henderson and Summerlin, and in hotels for visiting families. Local details and the Las Vegas team are listed on the agency's Las Vegas page.

Visiting families have their own planning questions beyond childcare. The agency's family guide to Las Vegas safety covers those basics for a first trip with kids.

Start your Las Vegas childcare search

Screened, trained, employed caregivers are the whole point of going through an agency. Lifetime of Love Nannies has cared for Las Vegas families since 2019, from one date night to full-time designated nannies. Founder Carson Wagner built the agency around care for children of all capabilities. The next step is a family phone call, bookable at the agency's scheduling page. Phone lines are open at (775) 544-1777.

Frequently asked questions

How far in advance should families book childcare in Las Vegas?

Standard bookings do not need a long lead time, and a same-day request can be covered when the caregiver pool has availability that day. Events are the exception: the agency has hosted more than 100 children at a single event and prefers a month or two of advance notice for event staffing.

What happens if a Las Vegas nanny agency caregiver cancels?

Lifetime of Love Nannies Las Vegas re-staffs the booking from its caregiver pool, and the family can choose an available nanny whose experience fits their needs. The goal is to keep the booked slot staffed.

Can visitors staying in Las Vegas hotels book in-home care?

Yes. Hotel and one-off care covers families visiting Las Vegas, in a hotel or anywhere else in the city. Visitors do not need a membership; non-member bookings carry a $30 fee per booking.

Who pays a nanny's employment taxes in Las Vegas?

The employer does, and who that is depends on how the nanny was hired. When a family hires directly, IRS Topic 756 treats the nanny as the family's household employee, and the family handles employment taxes. Caregivers booked through an employing agency are that agency's W-2 employees, and the agency runs payroll and taxes.


Carson Wagner is the founder of Lifetime of Love Nannies, a multi-state nanny agency she started in 2019. She worked as a nanny and did applied behavior analysis therapy work with children with autism before founding the agency. Under her leadership, Lifetime of Love Nannies has provided more than 300,000 hours of care and was named to the 2026 Inc. 5000, and she received the APNA 2024 Rising Star Award. Her story has been featured in Bold Journey and CanvasRebel magazines and on podcasts including Smart Business Revolution.


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