Au Pair after Brexit

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Hello! Any recommendations on good au pairs agencies? Thank you!

I dont think I can post links here, but if you search BAPPA you will find the website from the British Au Pair Agencies Association. There is a directory of agencies on there, although most of the ones I looked at based in the southeast don't seem to be operating anymore, and the few that do still exist are charging pretty high placement fees. Ive tried a few of the online sites like AuPairWorld but having no luok after 3 weeks for looking. Looks like the visa requirement after Brexit has killed the opportunity to au pair in the UK.

Does anyone else have any ideas or know of any agencies that have worked for them?

Get them over from the EU on a tourist visa for 6 months.
I know it is illegal - haven't done it but everyone around me has.

How could you trust an unvetted person or one willing to break the law to care for children? These people sound really strange

The people I know who did it are from Spain and they hired a friend of their family back in Spain so I think they could trust her. It worked brilliantly, the au pair made lots of friends and had the time of her life and the children loved her.
Being willing to do something like coming on a tourist visa when you plan to do a bit of work isn't great I agree but doesn't mean you are a criminal. This is called nuance.
You sound very obtuse and strange.

DO NOT try and get someone to break the rules for you!! It is not you or your young adult child that risks being detained by immigration in a foreign country and having their passport confiscated, is it. Nuance doesn´t go down well with the brutes at british border force.

@Mamoun it’s a criminal offence. You can go to jail!
www.gov.uk/penalties-for-employing-illegal-workers
I know someone who tried to get a Brazilian au pair that way, poor girl was detained by border security. Locked up overnight and refused admission to the U.K.

Er @Mamoun that’s not nuance, that’s breaking the law.

OP Hampstead au pairs is the only agency I know who seem to anyone available at the moment. But, they only place in London.

I’d look for alternative child care until it’s sorted out.

You literally said you know it is illegal. Doing an illegal thing does make you a criminal. Perhaps not a career criminal or a high level dangerous criminal but breaking laws and committing crimes very much makes you a criminal! And trying to encourage a young women to come and work illegally for you is unkindly taking advantage too. You aren’t the one taking the risk!

OP, have you any friends who have or have had au pairs? I often find good recommendations come personally.

@Kanaloa
Sure!

What is obtuse? As you openly said sneaking in Illegally on a tourist Visa just like the numerous illegal immigrants being given work who come on tourist visas the employers are breaking the law and get a £10000 fine the illegals get detained and returned and can not come back in the future.
Your children are entrusted to someone to learn how to be good citizens from someone who breaks the law....the parent abusing whoever they bring in by exposing them to criminal charges.

Lots of people are enticed into this country being offered work and a great future and find themselves in modern day slavery

We got our Au pair from Little Ones, an agency based in London. She's amazing! We wanted someone English and they met our requirements but there are loads of Bi-lingual candidates as well. My kids love her! Couldn't recommend enough.

Except Hampstead Au pair agency according to Companies House own website say they are a dissolved company so therefore operating illegally!!

and the husband of the owner has other dissolved companies as well! Yikes!

This is a very strange post, however here's my take;
I don't know much about Hampstead au pair Agency, although a friend has used them twice and is very happy with them. PS You don't need to be a Limited company to operate, you can be a partnership or a sole trader.

You should not break the law to get an au pair....this is insane! Think what you are saying!!!! You are getting someone, who you don't know, and who is prepared to break the law to look after your children. I don't know about you, but I definitely don't want someone who is prepared to break the law anywhere near my kids. Go to a reputable agency.