Putting pay in perspective

Our annual nanny pay survey, published in last month's Professional Nanny, which showed quite steep average pay increases over the past year for nannies across the UK, once again caused quite a lot of comment in the national press. This mainly focused on the difficulty that working parents now have in affording a full-time nanny, especially in inner London. But only one or two of the papers correctly identified that the real issue was not inflated salary demands by nannies, but rather the lack of subsidy or tax relief from the Government for parents who need to employ a nanny,...