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*Due to new UK regulations we refer to a “friend of the family” where we mention au pair. We have stopped matching “au pairs”
Arrange your childcare for 12 months and receive £250 discount
Your Friend of the Family can stay for 6 months: After to Brexit, it became more difficult to arrange an au pair.
If you would like, we can propose not 1, but 2 candidates to have the year covered, you will receive a £250 discount.
Hi! We are Jasmijn and Lyla, twin sisters and founders of au pair agency Nina.care. Nice to e-meet you! What kind of candidates do we select? We choose our au pairs very carefully. We only want reliable, sparkly people who really love and adore children. For the UK we help you with your “friend of the family” as au pair visums eligable candidates are impossible to find, and UK gov asks to au pairs minimum wage (£2.600 per month)
We guide you and your candidate in every step throughout the au pair stay, so you don’t have to worry about a thing. We get in touch with our Friend of te Family and make sure we have all the right documents, including the au pair contract, to ensure they are well prepared for the au pair program.
We screen our possible candidates carefully and give advice when needed throughout the program. Our academy has great language courses to help your Friend of the Family get to know our culture.
We check in by sending a Whatsapp or call, and we’re always available for any questions you might have. We have matched more than 2.000 au pairs and Friends of the family already, so we know what we’re talking about!
It is a big change to welcome a new member to your family. But once your candidate arrives, you will discuss the weekly schedule, expectations from you parents and will align on working hours and free time. The key word here is communication, so keep an open mind and if anything doesn’t go exactly your way, discuss it openly with your au pair.
We will also provide you with some guidelines to discuss your house rules with your Friend, which can include bathroom schedule, screen time with the kids, friends visiting the house and more. Setting some ground rules from the beginning, will ensure you all can enjoy the cultural exchange to the fullest.
Usually the standard process takes around 4-8 weeks from the intake call to arrival of your Friend of the Family in the UK. In case of a candidate from the EU this can be faster.
Based on your needs in terms of timeline we will work together to find the best option for you and your family.
Because we trust so much in our great matching service, we are confident to offer a very flexible refund policy: if the host family cannot find a match, and you like to stop the process, we will refund you.
During our detailed screening process we also dig deep into the background and experiences of our au pairs, to understand what ages of kids they have experience with, where they gained it and how they deal with various situations.
This will ensure that we can propose candidates to your family that will match your expectations and needs.
Our detailed screening process involves a thorough background check including police record, references and also a detailed health check (including pregnancy test).
We do conduct detailed interviews with all our candidates and check also their motivation in the cultural exchange, level of childcare experience (and if they really love kids!) and their interest in the host country and language. Further, all au pairs coming to United Kingdom need to speak at least A1 English so we naturally also test them on this. So you see, we really know who we are proposing as possible matches for all our families.
An au pair, or in the UK:”Friend of the Family”, is between 18-35 years old and comes from another country. The young people want to improve their English, and experience a “gap half year”. Because after Brexit an au pair visum has become almost impossible, we work with the only legal way to arrange the cultural exchange via a Friend of the Family.
First and foremost, you should see it as a cultural exchange and as a wonderful experience for your kids. Secondly, it’s a flexible and affordable way of daycare. The best of both worlds!
In total: £500 per month
In addition to the one-time agency fee of £1200, the monthly pocket money set by the UK government is a minimum of £360 with a recommendation of £360 monthly to be more in line with the cost of living and national minimum wage standards.
All of our host families are also required to pay at least 50% of the flight tickets for the candidate.
Do you just want our service to support you with the UK entry and aftercare, but you have found your own au pair? A self match agency fee is one time €800.
In Short: if you divide all costs by the 6 months that the Friend of the Family will be with your family, its around £500 per month.
Your candidate can help taking care of your kids, but also can help with some chores in the house! The thing they don’t help with is heavy cleaning.
Friends of the Family in the UK can work for up to 30 hours per week for their host family.
We have stopped working with “au pairs” in the UK: After Brexit, the 12 month au pair visum is not viable anymore due to shortages in candidates.
We work only with candidates that can stay for 6 months visa free. maaximum due to changes in regulation after Brexit.
The candidates will apply for the ETA.
We help you during the whole process, from finding a perfect match to the aftercare, guiding you through the visum process and organising events and courses for your au pair. Also after arrival we help with advice in where to register and mediate in case of conflict. You can reach out to us in case of emergencies and we can offer a nice insurance for you!
As part of the exchange program, candidates are entitled to free room and board. This means that they get all meals and housing from the host family.
They should have a private room with a door, window, bed, wardrobe, and desk as well as access to a bathroom. Their food and living quarters are included if they become sick or are on holiday time.
We were desperate for an extra pair of hands around the house as the boys would finish school a few hours earlier than we would finish work every day! We couldn’t find a reliable afterschool program we trusted so we began to look into au pairing as an option. What a surprise! We loved it and found it to be the right fit for us as there was a consistent person for the boys to help them with their homework and take them to their afterschool activities.
I had the pleasure of studying abroad in Australia in my youth and wanted to engrain an international mindset in my children from a young age. With daycares being inaccessible due to the price and long wait, I thought an au pair was the perfect solution for our family. Having an au pair in the house has been an absolute life changer for us! She quickly fell into our family and we developed a nice routine. I was a bit concerned about privacy initially, but she wants her alone time just as much as we do so it ended up being a great balance for us.
My family and I were looking for a solution to childcare as we live outside of Belfast and couldn’t find any consistent and reliable options. Nina.care matched us with a lovely Canadian girl who has become a part of our family in just a few short months time. She helps us tremendously throughout the week and we also enjoy time together with occasional family dinners or hikes on the weekend. We love the cultural exchange having an au pair in our house brings to our kids and are happy to have someone we trust watching after them.
We were really struggling to find a solution for our family as all of the daycares in the area had months-long waiting lists. My husband and I were trying to juggle full-time work with full-time childcare, and it was becoming near impossible. Bringing an au pair into our home couldn’t have been a better solution! We now have consistent, reliable help from someone that our children love and adore. We trust her entirely to keep our children safe and occupied, and it allows us to have the work-life balance we have been desperately needing. Our free time can now go to doing fun things with our children on the evenings and weekends rather than doing chores around the house!
We take our screening very seriously. We follow all au pair requirements including asking for a background check, legalized birth certificate, and a medical examination, and we ask each potential au pair everything about their home situation, experience with children, ambitions, and everything necessary to really get to know them. That way, we can guarantee the best match for your family.
We are a recognized sponsor, which means that our au pair agency must ensure that all administration is in order and that the au pair laws and regulations set by the UK government are complied with. That is a major task because the regulations are complex. In addition, we draw up the necessary contracts, check the documents supplied, pay out monthly pocket money, and support the au pair application.
In case you take the Rematch Insurance & Aftercare package, we will be there for you throughout the journey: once your au pair has arrived, we ensure all au pair arrangements are made and help in applying for health insurance, setting up bank accounts, and getting settled in their new communities. We also offer regular evaluation points throughout the au pair stay to identify room for improvement and ensure everyone is happy during the year.
Your Friend of the Family can only stay for 6 months. Due to Brexit, things became more difficult to arrange your childcare.
If you would like, we can propose not 1, but 2 candidates. You will receive a £250 discount as it also saves us a bit of work.
Arrange your childcare for the coming 12 months now and place your au pair booking!
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