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Ofsted moves to check nannies' first aid skills after failures found

Ofsted has tightened up its checks on nannies, after an employment agency found that a number of nannies on its voluntary childcare register lacked first aid certificates.

As Nursery World revealed last month, Karen Dixon, managing director of the London Nanny Company and executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's Childcare Group (pictured), went undercover posing as a nanny and applied to join the register (News, 18 March).

She was approved despite having no childcare qualifications, no first aid training and no nanny insurance.

Following her revelations, Patrick Leeson, Ofsted's director of education and care, confirmed in a Radio 5 Live interview that 'there has been a tightening of the check that is made on First Aid Certificates'.

All applicants will now have to 'send their first aid documents directly for verification', said a spokesman for Ofsted.

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