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[quote=Anonymous]While I agree with the need for greater transparency, the trouble with this is that it is nearly impossible in many instances to clearly and objectively establish who the 'initiator' of a transition was. While the exit interview form should ask this, there are situations where either family or au pair could make a situation or environment almost untenable, triggering the other party to request transition. For the same reason most agencies have refund policies that do not allow for full refunds, even if your au pair leaves suddenly or 'without cause,' neither the agency or anyone else can really make that call as to who is 'at fault.' There are usually layers

With reporting of transition rates outright, there are a range of variables I would want to account for--length of time in the home, whether mediation was conducted, length of time and success rate of outgoing HF, tenure of LC, etc--that bigger picture outside family and au pair recruitment.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Each agency should be required to disclose what percentage of attempted rematches are successful for the au pairs. Many get sent home after the allowable 14 days.
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I'm a host mom (not an AP program naysayer), but I think this is a really good idea.

I wish AP companies were forced to report:
1) how many rematches were initiated by their APs
2) how many rematches were initiated by the HFs
3) (how many were "mutual")
4) and how many rematches were successful.

I think this would shed a lot of light on which agencies really are doing their jobs well.  I've been a HM for 8 years now.  I've mostly had good experiences (2 rematches), but I think both the good matches and the bad matches are primarily a product of whether both parties have similar, reasonable expectations about what the program is or isn't.

If you saw an Agency with a high number of rematches, to me, that indicates that the agency is not doing a good job of educating the participants.

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