Au pairs post brexit

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Government don't seem to care about affordable childcare and working mums.

Have a decent job but probably need to resign as can't get an au pair for school holidays and wrap around- I work shifts and no family.

Wrote to my mp (labour) who basically told me to go away

So demoralising

A large number of British voters do not want immigrants of any kind coming to the UK. The Tories have been trading on this for the past decade and have made policy accordingly.
I don't know what you expect your Labour MP to do about it - their party are not in government.

The op has already explained that it is to provide wrap around care around the holiday clubs/school.

@InChocolateWeTrust They also get free accommodation and board. So really, they get more than £7 p/h.

I agree with you OP. We looked for this year now DS is in reception but it's impossible thanks to Brexit. The options are to take someone from Canada or New Zealand but they have to have over £2k in the bank, in which case, why would they want to do it? Or you could find one that already has the right to remain but they are in high demand and so expensive. The Government doesn't care about women.

Wow! There is a lot of hate against the au pair set up on here.
In the 1980s I was an au pair in the UK (I'm originally from Italy) and the USA. I loved it. It was an easy way to live in a foreign country, do a few hours of child care, attend a language school for a few hours a week, meet other young people from all over the world and live within a family set up and get a great insight into life in the UK/USA.
When I had children, we had (mainly Italian) au pairs as well.

Since Brexit I often thought "thank God, my children are old enough so we don't need au pairs anymore"
I work Freelance and having au pairs was a brilliant way to have flexible and affordable help with the added benefit of being able to connect with my Italian roots, and get my daughters to have connections to Italy aside from my family there.
I think without au pairs I couldn't have stayed working.
OP I fully understand your situation. It's rubbish

Yep, agree with PP - the government doesn't care about women. They would rather give tax breaks to drag men out of retirement than address the childcare issues that are preventing many experienced, educated women from working the hours they want.

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