The drive to register nannies and nanny agencies gathered force this month when a number of organisations joined up to a national working group, convened by the Professional Association of Nursery Nurses. The group's 20 members are as diverse as the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which represents many nanny agencies, the Chiltern College, Nannies at Work, the NSPCC and payroll service Nannytax. By joining forces they hope to be more effective at lobbying the Government to introduce a national register of all childcarers and to regulate all nanny agencies. This, it said, 'would provide a level of measurability whereby nannies and nanny agencies can be judged against accepted standards. This will raise the profile of nannies in society and afford them a status on a par with other carers, such as childminders, teachers and nurses.' The group has also asked CACHEto produce training modules or a stand-alone course for nannies that would relate specifically to working with a child in the child's own home.
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