Summer Au Pair roles in London, do they exist?

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DD 23 is going travelling in the Autumn. The company she works for at the moment is not looking to healthy so she was thinking about being a live in au pair in London for the summer for the experience and to cover bills. She's considering teaching on her return so is interested in dealing with different age groups.
Does this exist, I mean, I can see a need with school holidays but most people have probably got childcare sorted now haven't they? Interested to hear of any similar experiences.

Might be better off looking at being a holiday nanny, but there are definitely temp jobs over the summer in London. Lots of visiting families employ temp childcare for one thing.

Au pairing will cover bugger all bills really, it’s pocket money. But she could make money as a temp nanny. If she has limited experience she can say she’s a ‘junior nanny’ but still make a good hourly rate.

She could have a look on Childcare.co.Uk and post an ad clearly saying she is looking for a London-based summer role as a live-in nanny or au pair

be aware that the term ‘au pair’ is cat nip to people wanting to pay absolute bare minimum peanuts for someone to look after their kids
She would be better off calling herself a mothers help slash nanny, and setting a weekly rate and making clear how many hours she wants to work

I’m sure she will be inundated with people but she needs to be very clear from the start, and have some boundaries about the type of family (number and ages of children, own bathroom vs shared, working days vs evenings etc)

absolutely. I would look on au pair world. Put a very basic profile and she can contact prospective families.

Aren't au pairs generally foreigners working for next to nothing in return for board and to improve their language skills? Assuming your daughter normally lives in the UK, I don't know that she'd get an au pair job in London.

Echo the recommendation to post on childcare.co.uk, there's a shortage of au pairs because of brexit so it's not that unlikely someone will be interested.
Does she actually have any nannying experience though? When I was searching for childcare in London using that site I always found it frustrating the number of young people who would apply with no relevant experience whatsoever, just that they were looking for convenient part time work!
If she has some experience and doesn't need to be live in, she'd be better off applying to somewhere like Koru Kids

Not any more. The U.K. doesn’t have specific au pair visas so applicants are few and far between. The government website was updated a year ago to allow U.K. nationals to work as au pairs.
pocket money fir older, driving au pairs with fluent English are around £250/week.

Thanks for this advice, I've passed it all on to her.