The ten agencies were contacted by the makers of the programme 'Who's Looking After Your Child', broadcast on ITV last week. According to the producer, Diana Muir, they were 'big-name and smaller nanny agencies chosen at random in central and south-west London'.
The programme repeated an exercise from a similar programme five years ago in which a researcher went with a false CV to ten nanny agencies chosen at random to see if they would pick up that she was not a real nanny. But none did.
Ms Muir said, 'We expected that they would have checked for her original identity documents, spotted a gap in her CV and queried about her having her contact referees on a mobile phone number. No agency was bothered by the mobile phone number, even though it could have been anybody. We would have thought the agencies would have wanted either a home or work number.'
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