Our program fee for Australian au pair candidates now also includes our accredited on-line au pair course FREE of charge (normally £60!).

Smartaupairs has contributing to the creation of a brand new ‘au pair’ course which has already received UK accreditation through the OCN, the Open College Network. The course is designed by Milton Keynes Language Centre and is completed online.

The course is designed to be a 30 hour course set out over 4 sections, covering topics such as Getting To Know Your Family, Health & safety, Food & Recipes and ‘Out & about’. Throughout the course you will have access to support from a tutor plus a student forum. At the end of the course, when all the assessments/tasks have been completed successfully, an official certificate will be issued.

The Au pair course is one unit of a larger course titled ‘British Culture’; other units in the course being: British business etiquette, British heritage, People in history and Famous Britons.

As the course material is in parts specific to being au pair in Britain, we issue additional information for our other destination countries to make sure every au pair has sufficient information to get started!

We are also proud to issue the ultimate pre-departure pack. Once the host family is confirmed for our au pair candidate and we know to which country she/he will be travelling, we will send out the pack in the post. It contains a local guide book and other handy material which is great to share with parents prior to the cultural exchange experience.