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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers

London parents are ‘nanny-poaching’ in playgrounds as childcare costs soar

Childcare in London is now in such short supply that parents are resorting to ‘nanny-poaching’ in school playgrounds, City Hall has been told.

Concerns over the high cost and low availability of childcare in the capital were discussed at a meeting of the London Assembly’s economy committee on Tuesday.

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