Research Reports

One in ten households employs domestic workers to help with childcare, eldercare, cleaning, ironing and gardening. But Domestics: UK domestic workers and their reluctant employers  finds that we are often awkward, amateur employers, feeling ill-equipped to tackle the responsibilities that go with formal employment and unsure how to deal with either rewards for good work or with poor performance. Includes facts and figures about the numbers of households using paid help by household income and by household employment status.