Campaigners for national registration for nannies were celebrating last week after the Government announced that they would be regulated, albeit voluntarily, for the first time so that the parents employing them could receive tax relief.
Proposals set out in a DfES consultation document to extend tax breaks to nannies, childminders of children aged over seven and childcare for those aged over seven and up to 15 at breakfast clubs and holiday play schemes in England have been generally welcomed.
But this enthusiasm for bringing previously unregistered forms of childcare under some form of regulation has been tempered by concern over the decision to make them subject only to a 'light-touch accreditation system'
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