Parents are using work auction website Airtasker to find babysitters for their children, particularly if they’ve left arrangements until the last minute. The Australian Nanny Association telling The Age they find the trend are concerning and shocking. Update Date 12/7/2017 Read more
Parents are auctioning off the care of their children online on Australian sharing economy platform Airtasker. Airtasker allows users to post jobs for everything from cleaning to assembling furniture and, more controversially, babysitting. Australian Nanny Association president Annemarie Sansom says the practice raises serious concerns for the safety of children. “People are putting a price…
2nd July 2017 Media Release re: Proposed Au Pair Programme The Australian Nanny Association is the national peak body representing the nanny sector. Our membership represents 500 nannies, service providers and families engaging nanny services. Many of our agency members have more than 5000 nannies on their books. Our members are required to meet our…
In this month’s member profile, we catch up with Victoria, a nanny who specialises in maternity work. Victoria’s work has certainly taken her places: from NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, Washington, Zurich, London, Prague, the Bahamas and the list goes on and on! Through her career, she has worked with amazing families all over the…
The Australian Nanny Association recently became aware of a terrible situation where a family engaged the services of a person claiming to be a nanny directly from an online parents group. This person stated that they had a Working With Children Check and other background information but unfortunately the family was not aware that they…
Thank you Joey Lauren for participating in our Meet a Member How long have you been working as a nanny? I have just entered my fifth year as a nanny! How did you get started as a nanny? Originally I wanted to be a primary school art teacher… I worked hard in high school, however…
With last year’s event SELLING OUT, secure your spot to the ‪#‎ANAconv16‬ and grab your ticket today. The popular ANA Nanny Convention is back, bigger and better then ever on the beautiful Gold Coast.
