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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question regarding a rematch-does this type of information or incident follow them to their next family? [/quote]

APIA hostmom who's been through two rematches - some information is provided, but my observation is that it tends to be whitewashed.  The agencies have an interest in rematching au pairs into new families, and while the OP is NOT one of these people, there are host families that would try to torpedo their "old" au pair's chances of rematching just because it didn't work out with them.  In some cases (not this one) there are bad host families that end up with good au pairs, so the agencies take what the families say and often... soften it.  Unless there's a track record of the family working with the LCC to try to fix something, the LCC is often stuck with the family's word against the au pair's - and of course they stories are radically different.  Which is why longtime host families will advise when things start going south to document, document, document and put everything in writing cc'ing the LCC.

My guess is, in this case agency will at least let her look for a new family, as she didn't directly cause the injury and since she was technically off duty and the parents were home, it wasn't technically her JOB to help him, just the kind of common empathy we generally expect from other human beings.  They'll probably write up the reason for rematch as she wasn't meeting host parent expectations, with a heavy dose of implying that the host family may have been expecting too much (again, NOT that I agree).  This is why it is vital to contact the former host families of any rematch candidates.  For the record, as of three years ago (our last rematch) the contact info of the former host families was available to new host families, but they don't exactly encourage contact with the past host families and may actively discourage it, saying something along the lines of that the relationship has soured to the point that the HM/HD won't be able to give an accurate reference.[/quote]

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