Holiday pay

[PenguinWings]

I'm hoping to get some advice about nanny holidays please.
I'm looking to employ a before and after school nanny and was pleased to find someone who seems ideal- she can do the days and hours that we want and seems lovely. It will be just over 16 hours per week.
She does want to be paid for 52 weeks, so 16 hours every week with a plan of flexibly using the unused hours for babysitting, days when the DCs are off sick, and some school holiday cover. My guess is that we will struggle to use the extra hours but I will see how it goes.
She's asked me about holiday pay and I'm a bit at a loss. We've said that we will pay 52 weeks so holiday pay is kind of included. So I think that it depends on how much holiday she is taking.
I've seen people say 3 weeks parents' choice and 3 weeks nanny's choice. That could potentially be 3 weeks in the school term time which I'm not too keen on.

Could anyone tell me what normally happens in this situation please?

As an employee she’s entitled to 5.6 weeks leave per year (including bank holidays). You can decide when it is to be taken if you want to.

As previous poster says. You can restrict leave to all your choice or say it has to be in holiday time. As long as you are clear and nanny is happy before they start.

I would just stipulate it has to be taken out of the DC school term time.

She does want to be paid for 52 weeks, so 16 hours every week.
If you are agreeing to pay for 16 hours every week and they work 5 days per week, then holiday pay is nice and simple, it is 5.6 weeks (28 days).
You need to decide if you want them to work on a bank holiday, if not then you dictate that all those are taken as annual leave... depending which country you are in that then leaves around 20 days. You can then dictate that there is no holiday to be taken during school term time. You can also agree that the entitlement is split between you and their choice - so you choose 10 days and they choose 10 days. However before splitting at that point you may want to decide what happens at Christmas. If you need your nanny not to work between Christmas and New Year, I would make that clear from the start and allocate those days as annual leave. So that may then leave 14-16 days of annual leave to split between you.

Thanks everyone that's great.