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Keeping the lid on Nanny expenses?

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r3dh3d · 02/03/2007 09:44

I guess, looking back, we've been very lucky with Nannies in the past. We've had some broad rules about what is and is not acceptable spending, and they've had the common sense to stick to it.

This one, unfortunately, is different. It's not her money, so she's not bothered about spending it. She's just hit me with an expenses bill for Feb of £300 even though she knows we are completely broke atm. (This is after all her and DD1's food is theoretically paid for on Ocado - Ocado bill a whole other area of contention)

A lot of it is mileage. We have a nanny car, but as she is live out it's easier for her to use her own so we pay mileage at the standard RAC rate. So she'll say to me "we're going to Tuesday morning" and it's not till the end of the month when I get the bill that I realise it was £5 admission but £30 mileage there and back because she has driven to the arse end of nowhere to meet up with non-local friends of hers.

Obviously I have to put in some budgetting rules for her, but I don't know where to start because I've never needed to in the past. What does everyone else do?

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NannyL · 11/03/2007 00:42

it amazes me that some nannies even think its ok to meet up with their friends / their mums etc during work time, with their charges

i would never even dream of it!

I have a few nanny friends who i meet with, and normally have 2 nanny meet ups per week.... but we all live less than 10 mins drive away from each other, and the chidlren are same sex (not that that really matters) similar ages, and get on well!

we also compliment each other well.... one of us has a lovely pool (great in summer)!, another a big massive house and grounds in the middle of the country side, with lots of interesting walks for farm animal / tractor spotting and then feed the chickens / hunt for eggs etc, and another a truley fantastic playroom and trampoline etc!

We often meet up as well, such as the zoo in holiday times, or simply the local farm, swimming pool (in winter) or soft play etc!

This is clearly for the childrens benefit.

If i were a mum employing a nanny NO WAY would i be happy to be the mileage, and then the bill for nanny to meet up with her mum in a cafe etc

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