Hiring your own ‘Mary Poppins’ can do some serious damage to your bank balance.  With every family watching their pennies at the moment 'Nanny sharing' is becoming one of the most popular and cost effective means of childcare. 

But thanks to the nannyshare.co.uk website you can now find another family living close by to share a nanny with.  Increasing numbers of parents are opting to share a nanny in a bid to cut childcare costs, nanny sharing has doubled year on year for the past 5 years and is a popular and cost effective means of childcare in today's credit crunch times. 

All families need to save money, the latest trend is to nanny share (nannyshare.co.uk).  One of the biggest expenses for working parents, after the mortgage, must be childcare so anything that helps reduce this cost is a real help.  Nanny Sharing is the perfect option for working parents and is often a less expensive option then a nursery.  A practical solution that can help working families save money and meet friends. 

Nanny share - Statistics from Tinies, the UK’s leading nanny agency and nannyshare.co.uk 

•          The number of "nanny shares" in the UK has increased threefold over the past six months

•          One in four nannies on Tinies books now work for more than one family, up from one in eight a year ago

•          The average cost of employing a nanny as part of a nanny share including tax and national insurance contributions is around £350-£420 a week which is then split between two families

Nannyshare.co.uk specialises in matching up families who live close to each other.  If you are looking to share the costs of a nanny, find a match with a local family also looking to share childcare costs.  The Nannyshare website allows you to enter your postcode and find families near you who want to share a nanny. You then create a family profile so other families can see your needs and vice versa.  Together you can find flexible, quality childcare at an affordable price.  If you think of it as a dating website, the principles are the same, you want to find the best match.  Nannyshares generally bring children from two families together in one home, or the week is split with a few days at one home and the rest at another. 

www.nannyshare.co.uk helps to reduce your childcare costs by sharing a nanny with a local family.  Subscriptions costs £25 and last for 6 months, this includes creating a family profile and 1 free job posting.