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Paid childcare

Discuss everything related to paid childcare here, including childminders, nannies, nurseries and au pairs.

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As a Nanny, how do you answser: CENSUS 2011: At your workplace, what is (was) the main activity of your employer or business?

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nannynick · 09/03/2011 17:22

So you work as a nanny in a private home caring for children.

Your job title is: Nanny
Simple Desctription of Job: Care for children in their home
Do you Supervise other employees: No
(most nannies don't, though some might)

Now the next question (Question 37) the Census asks is:
At your workplace, what is (was) the main activity of your employer or business?

If you are a primary teacher and you work for a school, the answer is Primary Education

If you are a car mechanic, the answer is Repairing Cars

So for a nanny working for parents... the business the parents are in is? Parenting? Being Parents?

Anyone got any ideas?

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StillSquiffy · 09/03/2011 17:29

I'd go for 'Childcare'. Because they are your employer and in their role as your employers, the employment type given by HMRC is childcare.

If only that were my only gripe with the bloody nosy parker pile of shit census..

Blondeshavemorefun · 09/03/2011 17:40

ive got the thrill of this to come - asked dh if arrived in post today and he said no, so will wait eagerly for it tomorrow/friday

i assume i would write what they do, ie PR - then again it is none of anyones business what my employers do

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nannynick · 09/03/2011 18:36

It's not asking what they do. It's asking what the nature of the business is - the business of employing you.

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chitchatingagain · 09/03/2011 18:53

The nature of the business is 'family home', isn't it? That's why you're there, it's the home of the family whose children you are looking after.

Blondeshavemorefun · 09/03/2011 19:33

oic nick - sure all will be completely obvious when i finally get mine, not

SuperDuperJezebel · 09/03/2011 21:30

I am going to write 'private/domestic household'

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nannynick · 12/03/2011 12:56

So the options so far:

Childcare
Family Home
Private/Domestic Household

Is any one of those better than any other? If HMRC view it as being Childcare, then it makes sense to use that to link it together. Though Private/Domestic Household could well be better to use if the family has other domestic staff.

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mranchovy · 12/03/2011 17:23

Private Household is the correct answer.

mranchovy · 12/03/2011 17:26

Childcare is wrong, that is your job it is not the main activity of your employer.

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