Student meeting new nanny employers advice please

[Mh0296]

Hello,

My 18 year old niece has moved to London and started university. She is great with children and has done lots of babysitting jobs in the past. To support herself during her studies, she was looking for a permanent babysitting job and advertised on childcare.co.uk and replied to some ads on gumtree.
She has 2 families that she likes the most who have both proposed an interview in their own home. I know she is now a grown up looking for a job, but she is only 18 and it freaks me out to think she's going to a stranger's house who she met on the internet.
I've suggested that she meet them in a public place first (cafe?) to check that everything seems ok first but she is embarrassed and doesn't know how to go about explaining to them that she doesn't want to just turn up and theirs.
Any advice? She's new to london with uni.. so new friends and no one to go with her etc...

Tell her flat mates/you what the address is and she will call afterwards....seriously I'm a nanny and it's totally common practice to do this, she can ring you afterwards when she is out to let you know she's ok

It's common practice but for safety reasons if I'm meeting a client from internet I meet in coffee shop, if position in through agency I will meet in home.

Either way I make sure I know that someone knows address where I am at and I get them to call or text an hour after start of interview I just politely excuse myself to text back or answer phone and quickly say I will call them back. I also google prospective clients.

Although I can see her point, this would have been really inconvenient for me when I was first meeting nannies. It would have mostly meant dragging my children (the reason for the nanny) out to a cafe and keeping them occupied while I tried to speak with her. I think it's pretty important for everyone that she meets the employers/children in their home, which will be her work environment and gets a chance to interact with them there.