Originally Posted by
DavidJames
Yeah, but there's this awkward "minimum wage" thing... IN other words, you have to pay them (roughly, including all proper expenses) £6 / hour.
So obvously you have to be earning more than £6 / hour after tax to even consider it. Assuming a 35-hour week, plus 2 hours / day travel time, that works out at nearly £300 / week even on minimum wage - after tax.
OK, fair enough, if they're only being paid for out-of-school hours that helps a lot - but I'd be surprised if you could find a live-in nanny who'd do that, when they could be earning twice as much doing a full-time job.
Basically, childcare sucks - parents get no support from the government in this country (tax relief would be one obvious solution).
Yeah, but au pairs are not nannies - as it says:
In other words, au pairs are not appropriate. And anyway, you'd be nuts to trust your kids full-time care to a random unqualified teenager.
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