Regulation Matters (RM) wrote to children and families minister Vicky Ford in July, to express the ‘urgent need’ for a registration scheme for nannies and a regulation process for nanny agencies in the wake the childcare crisis caused by the pandemic.
But in a response received last week, Ms Ford said that regulation of this kind of care in a child’s own home would be ‘too intrusive’ into family life.
Tricia Pritchard, chair of RM told Nursery World, ‘This is a complete dereliction of responsibility on the part of Government and a shameful failure to fulfil its obligations.
‘It’s a gaping loophole that Covid has made wider. Parents have got to be comfortable in the knowledge that the childcare options that they’ve got are safe – particularly at a time when they are being encouraged to get back to work. And at the moment, that’s not the case.’
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