It didn't win many news headlines, but the Children's Workforce Development Council last month achieved the feat of counting the uncountable. The composition, needs and aspirations of the nanny workforce in England, its report of a year's research commissioned from the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC), put a new figure on the number of nannies working in the country, as well showing as a clearer profile of nannies by age, education, qualifications and other demographic factors than anyone has done yet.
But throughout the report, peer-reviewed and bolstered by nanny focus groups and interviews, the researchers also point up why the boundaries defining the 'invisible professionals' in the childcare workforce remain blurred.
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