{"id":91035,"date":"2018-06-09T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/au-pair-shortage-sparks-childcare-crisis-for-families\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T07:05:38","slug":"au-pair-shortage-sparks-childcare-crisis-for-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/au-pair-shortage-sparks-childcare-crisis-for-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Au pair shortage sparks childcare crisis for families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\n75% slump in applications blamed on Brexit and fallout from terrorist attacksMany families are facing a childcare crisis following a 75% slump in the number of young Europeans willing to work as au pairs, as Brexit, plus other factors such as last year\u2019s terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, deter young people from coming to the UK.May, June and early July are when most au pair placements are arranged, before the beginning of the school term in September, but Guardian Money has learned that some agencies are unable to find a single young European for British families to even interview. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/jun\/09\/au-pair-shortage-prompts-crisis-for-families\" target=\"_blank\">Au pair shortage sparks childcare crisis for families<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; 75% slump in applications blamed on Brexit and fallout from terrorist attacksMany families are facing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-nGj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":141747,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/men-pick-up-your-toilet-brushes-it-could-solve-the-great-british-baby-shortage\/","url_meta":{"origin":91035,"position":0},"title":"Men, pick up your toilet brushes! 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