However, as the owner of an agency supplying nannies and au pairs, I am concerned about the increasing number of families calling us to request an au pair - a young foreign student with little English and no childcare skills - to take sole-charge of babies and small children.
Unless au pair agencies are again licensed and regularly inspected, children's lives will be at risk because they will not be protected by any Bill.
Maggie Dyer
The London Au Pair and Nanny Agency Hampstead, London
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