We have been liaising with a very nice Dutch girl with a view to her becoming our au pair. We have now secured someone else (an au pair who we thought had let us down but is in fact still coming) and want to try to help the other girl out. Her spoken English is great. She is currently with a family in Kent but without going into details they seem like a total nightmare and very weird and she is not surprisingly very unhappy (I am sure she will fill you in on the details). Effectively she is doing no childcare at all now but being asked to do 35 hours a week cleaning while being watched by the mother! She is in a room with no curtains etc. She is looking for a new position as soon as possible. She is 18 and has extensive babysitting experience with all ages and has been with this family nearly 3 months. She is now really looking for a position with a more balanced split of work. She is interested in going anywhere but particularly would like being somewhere she could get to London from so she could do a bit of sightseeing while she is in the UK. She does seem to be a very sweet girl.
If you are interested please can you contact her on charly_lovygirl at hotmail dot com. Please could you mention in contacting her that you got her details form mumsnet as I told her I would put her details on here. Her host family has left her for 3 days in the house so she is able to come to see a prospective family during that time if you are not miles away.
I hope that someone is interested as she seems genuinely very nice.