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Confidentiality in the home – how to protect against a rogue Ms (or Mr) Poppins

Katie Lancaster, partner and head of domestic staff advisory group, Farrer & Co, 09/11/2015

\'Mary Poppins\' nanny Emma Currie was jailed for nine months this summer for theft, having been found guilty of stealing over £170,000 worth of designer clothes and jewellery from her employer Mrs Appleyard-Ley\'s home in Belgravia. During the trial, Ms Currie falsely accused Mrs Appleyard-Ley of making it all up as part of an insurance scam, taking drugs and abusing her children. Mrs Appleyard-Ley described the "earth-shattering "pain of discovering that someone who she had taken into her home to care for her children could have abused her position of "absolute trust". The impact upon her child...


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