The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) has criticised the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses (PANN) for its role in creating a new body, the Association of Nanny Agencies (ANA). The new body, which is being administered initially by PANN, has been set up by around 30 agencies covering much of the UK, but is open to wider membership.
PANN professional officer Tricia Pritchard said she hoped the ANA would enable agencies 'to share knowledge and expertise, and offer support to each other on a non-competitive basis'. She added that the nanny agencies had set up the ANA because 'the feeling was very much that what is already out there by way of support to the industry is not representative of the industry'.
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