The reputation of the English middleclass has become bad, if you should believe a rapport recently published.
The international organization Youth Welfare and the University of London have in coalition made a questionnaire and sent it to about 1500 au-pair girls in different parts of England. ¾ parts of the questionnaires returned, shows some unpleasant facts how young girls arriving in England to learn the language are being treated.
There is often a big gap between what the girls are being told before they leave, and the way the host family in England is treating them. A large number says they are only paid £9 a week, working 50 hours a week; a lot of them are not eating together with the host family and are not getting enough food.
Dom Placid, chairman of the international youth welfare arrived to England 20 years ago, and still lives there, is a monk. He, as well as others in the organization, claims that it is imperative that the situation towards au-pair girls will be known, so the bad terms can be improved the proposal from the organization is to produce a booklet to all au-pair girls arriving in England, as well as the host family's. That could perhaps improve the reputation of the English middleclass in other European countries.
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