Take Bill further

Nursery World, 13 June 2002

I welcome the news that prime minister Tony Blair has signalled his support for the Regulation of Child Care Providers Bill (News, 30 May). This Bill is long overdue, and hopefully it will lead to a national register of nannies and a ban on childminders smacking children. However, as the owner of an agency supplying nannies and au pairs, I am concerned about the increasing number of families calling us to request an au pair - a young foreign student with little English and no childcare skills - to take sole-charge of babies and small children.

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