It could be expected that as the Government wants to expand the childcare market, offer parents more choice and diversity and raise quality, nannying would be brought more into the embrace of Ofsted and the EYFS, and nannies would be seen as a part of an increasingly professional workforce.
Not so. We already have the ludicrous situation where nannies possibly in sole charge of children for 50 hours a week are not included in Vetting and Barring arrangements if hired directly by parents (News, 10 February), while children's authors visiting schools are. And a slack checking process for nannies signing up to the voluntary childcare register has been exposed (News, 18 March).
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