au pair insurance

[NikiHA]

My husband and I have just hired an au pair for the first time and are trying to sort all if the formalities before her arrival!

I think we have the healthcare sorted but can anyone tell me whether they have insurance for their au pairs, what i need to cover and any advice on which company to use?

ANY other advice (no matter how trivial) would be gratefully received too! :)

Make some kind of notebook telling the au pair

• where local shops are

• where to buy stamps/bread/milk etc if it is different from their country
• buses, bus fares, train timetables etc.
• bank account details, bank opening hours
• local churches, community things they could be involved in.

-nanny/au pair circles. I think its better to have too much information than not enough!

Get a small bookshelf for their room. I was a live in nanny a rooms hardly ever have book shelves!

No idea about insurance I'm afraid, but HTH.

This is brilliant - thank you so much! Great advice!

Insurance do you mean you as an employer or her as a carer?

Assuming you're in the UK....

The former should be covered under your home insurance but do check! The latter you cannot buy for her, she needs to do that herself, probably from Morton Michel. However that will require a UK bank account with a debit card or cheque facility which can take a bit of time so investigate that before her arrival.

Healthcare will be under the NHS - she just needs to register with a GP.

In addition to the local info write down your house rules, daily routines, ideas on discipline, likes/dislikes - everything. It might look overwhelming and you'll talk her through it all but dealing with that even in your own language is exhausting so if Emglish is her second language it's worth writing it down so she can check it all back.

Do you have an employment contract sorted etc? And have you double checked that what you're paying is under the threshold for tax/NI? And any working restrictions due to her nationality (there shouldn't be any if EU unless she's Romanian or Bulgarian in which case there might be, other countries check the visa carefully)?