Hard-up professionals boost income by babysitting

It has traditionally been a way for teenagers to earn a few extra pounds by looking after their younger relatives and neighbours, but babysitting is becoming big business and with the country in recession, hard-up professionals are boosting their income at evenings and weekends by advertising their services as a babysitter.

A new website, childcare.co.uk, has been inundated with requests from university educated professionals including teachers and nurses who are looking to offer their services as a babysitter during time off from their main jobs.

The site is designed to match parents with local childcare providers and allows anyone over the age of eighteen to sign up as a babysitter in their area and post their profile online.

Parents and babysitters can communicate via the websites' own secure private messaging system. All childcare providers can be rated and reviewed by parents to help other parents make an informed choice when looking for childcare.

Despite its recent launch, childcare.co.uk has already signed up over two thousand members with a wide range of babysitters including primary school teachers, students, nurses, airline cabin crew and even Harrods sales staff.

The website is the brainchild of thirty-four year old Richard Conway, a father of a 14-month old son and an experienced entrepreneur who has been responsible for several other successful internet businesses.

Speaking about the website Conway said: "In today's economy people are short of money and are looking at doing whatever they can to boost their incomes and save extra cash. Most of the babysitters are highly qualified individuals in all kinds of sectors who are really feeling the pinch at the moment. Many of them are saving up for mortgage deposits or school fees for their own children".

Conway's idea came to him when he and his wife found it difficult finding a local babysitter in their home town of Milton Keynes.

For further information contact:
Richard Conway, 07734 794878
Richard@childcare.co.uk
www.childcare.co.uk