To ask my tenant to top up rent with daily babysitting?

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And be gone at the weekends too?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/landlord-renting-london-room-tenant-must-babysit/

That would cost the landlord/employer more though - which is exactly why they want to exploit someone this way instead. They say it's 3 hours babysitting a weekday, so assuming it's a 20 weekday month that's 60 hours. At £11.44 an hour (minimum wage from April) that's £686.40, so they are charging, in cash and labour, £1086.40 a month for a single (pretty crappy looking) room as lodger in a family house and as a Monday to Friday let. Even in Clapham that isn't market rent.

Don't forget it's 15 hours unpaid childcare!

I did know someone who about 15 years or so ago had au pairs in her house in Battersea. They had a lovely attic room (huge) with separate bathroom there. My friend and her DH worked hard and longer hours. But they always, always paid the au pair (they had 3 DC) and had some very good ones at that, not always foreign ones some British.

But not all students go home at the weekend.