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Harriet James, Founder of Oxford Babysitters.

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Over a four year period Harriet nannied two families in Oxford during her university holidays and and went on to become a qualified tax consultant in London. In January 2018, having moved back to Oxford she combined both her childcare experience with her business knowledge to create Oxford Babysitters. 

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It is Oxford Babysitter's understanding that babysitters are undervalued and underpaid throughout the UK, on average it costs more to higher a cleaner per hour than a babysitter per hour. We want to challenge this by providing families with babysitters who have professional childcare experience to look after their children at a much higher level and to give our babysitters the opportunity to earn a much fairer hourly rate. 

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As cliché as it may sound, we are the 'Bentleys' of babysitting and not your 'Peugeots 206'.

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