Please take our super-quick, one-question poll about nannies

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Hello.

REC Childcare, the voice of the childcare recruitment market in the UK, is committed to promoting best practice in the recruitment of nannies, au pairs, and nursery staff.

They've asked us to ask you to take this super-quick, one-question poll to help them
look into how Ofsted registration can be best developed to ensure the safe recruiting of childcare professionals.

Thank you!

done

done - but not convinced that it's important

i wanted to tick "none of the above" which isn't an option. to me it only means i can use childcare vouchers to pay her. the rest of it is irrelevant as i can judge that/check that myself or don't consider it meaningful.

i speak as someone whose nanny is still not ofsted-registered despite us starting the process 6 months ago and the only reason for registering her was to get the tax break...

It should be phrased - which of the following does an ofsted reg nanny have to have - none of it is important or means that the nanny is any more competent than a non-registered nanny. Ofsted registration is useful so that you can pay a nanny using Childcare vouchers but since these are being phased out then there's no real point..you can check references and qualifications just like you would for any other job.

God that took ages

done - survey question appalling though.

I can't do it because links like that aren't working for me and no one will tell me why

Can you put the actual web address please as that seems to work

thank you!

have to agree with the other comments on here - which is why I haven't done the poll. I had a nanny who wasn;t registered - because I'm quite capable of checking references and making my own decisions - had my employer got their bum in gear a bit sooner I would have got her registered purely for the vouchers thing.

Sorry - I haven't done the poll. I didn't like the question because the answers weren't correct. I would have answered "some of the above".

I have an OFSTED registered nanny.

I think it's about public awareness, though, isn't it? So what does "OFSTED-registered" mean to someone? As employer of OFSTED-registered nannies, some of whom have been absolutely shocked by how low level the required 'training' is, all it means to me (as a matter of pure fact) is that they've been put through an ID-checking exercise.

I'd have ticked the last box if all it said was "has had their police record checked" - it was the "safe and competent childcarer" statement that is not proved by the OFSTED process (see above re level of required training) - the person may well be safe & competent, but it isn't the OFSTED process that makes them so.

I have done but agree with many of the previous posters. When we were looking for a nanny it did not even occur to be that those with "Ofsted registered" on their CCV were any better or worse than those without. In fact all it meant to me was I could claim childcare vouchers.

I would have liked one of the survey options to have been:

(x) nanny has been subjected to needless form filling in order that you can obtain a small tax break.