Katy's Reviews
Nanny
5 out of 5
Parents say
This nanny is consistently praised for her exceptional childcare skills. Parents highlight her punctuality, flexibility, and ability to engage children in fun and educational activities. She is described as calm, patient, and knowledgeable about child development. The nanny is commended for her professionalism, reliability, and capacity to handle multiple children effectively. Families express strong trust in her abilities and often form lasting bonds.
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Below are the latest reviews for Katy. Please note that reviews represent the subjective opinions of other Childcare.co.uk members and not of Childcare.co.uk. Parents must carry out their own checks and references on childcare providers to ensure that they are completely happy before enaging in the use of their services.
Katy Green has been working for our family on an ad hoc basis since October 2023. As well as looking after the children at our home she has performed such duties as picking them up from school, dropping them at friends’ houses and taking them to various activities including swimming lessons. She has often had to cook an evening meal for them after school and on occasion get them ready for bed.
The children - a boy 8 and girl 5 - love her coming to look after them and love playing with her toddler daughter whenever Katy brings her along too. She has always been punctual and followed instructions, using her initiative when instructions were lacking in detail! We very quickly felt comfortable leaving the children with Katy and are able to go to work knowing the children are well looked-after, cared for and having fun!
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Emilia85
on 16/01/2025
We were lucky enough to employ Katy for 2 years between 2019 and 2021. She was a consistently excellent nanny for our then 3 year old twin daughters. She was always punctual, calm, friendly and flexible around variations in our schedule. Our girls loved spending time with her and woke up in the mornings asking whether it was "a Katy day", and were always full of chatter and enthusiasm at the end of the day. Katy is great at taking children out for long adventures outdoors, and engaging them with nature. She was excellent at managing two small children at once, and giving them both lots of attention- and I have no doubt she would care for more than two children at once equally well. We all really miss Katy and are very grateful for all the help she gave us, and wished we could continue employing her for longer! We are happy to be contacted with any further questions.
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Niki
on 08/08/2023
Katy is an absolutely incredible nanny. She started looking after our identical twin
boys when I returned to work in August 2018, and stayed with us for just over a year. The
boys were 14 months when she started and sometimes she was also responsible for their
older brother (almost 4 when she started). She is professional, caring, knowledgeable and
totally unflappable. We recommend her without hesitation. Here are some examples of
Katy’s attributes:
● Caring: Katy loves playing with the children and always puts their needs first. She
has enormous reserves of patience and a calm manner that reassures them and
de-escalates those tense moments. She somehow manages to get two toddlers and
a preschooler to behave well without ever raising her voice. She became part of our
family and the children love her.
● Observant: within weeks it felt like Katy had a really good grasp of the different skills
and preferences of our identical twins, and over the year she often pointed out things
they did differently that we hadn’t spotted which was very helpful.
● Knowledgeable: Katy’s quiet manner belies a wealth of knowledge and experience,
fostered by a real interest in child behaviour and development. She has an excellent
grasp of children’s sleep requirements. For example, she helped us to make a new
nap routine when I returned to work and to transition from two naps to one. She
helped us enormously through tricky times - e.g. resisting naps, teething, bedtime
struggles - with advice that worked. She also is very knowledgeable about children’s
health and is first aid trained which has been useful on occasion e.g. spotting a low
temperature.
● Efficient: I don’t know how she does it, but when the children are asleep she gets a
lot done (washing, cooking, tidying toys, preparing activities!). It’s amazing.
● Inventive: Katy hs a huge range of ideas for children’s play that we would never have
thought of, or wouldn’t have wanted to tidy up. She is also a master of designing
elaborate train tracks.
● Respectful: Each family has its own rules, habits, quirks and just a way of living that
works for everyone. Katy respected our systems and very quickly fitted in which just
made everyday life very easy.
● Flexible: Katy was happy to switch days and do extra evenings if we asked her to.
This really helped fit around work trips, holidays etc.
● Reliable: in over a year with us, Katy has never been a single minute late to work!
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ncjc
on 05/08/2023
