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Your permit only covers light\nsupporting tasks, for your host family, at their address, and there always has to be someone\nelse who could step in, so you are never the only one responsible for the children or the\nhousehold.",[129,130,132],"h2",{"id":131},"why-this-is-where-most-disagreements-start","Why this is where most disagreements start",[125,134,135],{},"The IND's own review of the scheme notes that no exact definition of \"light\" exists, and names\nthat gap as a direct source of disagreement between au pairs and host families. FairWork, the\nDutch organisation against labour exploitation, has formally asked the government to sharpen the\ntask list for exactly this reason. So if a task feels like it has drifted from what you agreed,\nyou are not misreading the situation: the term itself has no fixed definition, and that is what\nlets tasks accumulate one at a time until the job looks nothing like what you signed up for.",[129,137,139],{"id":138},"what-is-actually-fixed","What is actually fixed",[125,141,142,143,148],{},"Three things are not open to interpretation. The tasks are supporting, not primary: a parent or\ngrandparent has to be present or directly available, so you are never the only person responsible\nfor the children, and you are not fully responsible for the household either. The tasks are for\nyour host family only: you may not do tasks for a second family, for an employer, or for a\nrelative living nearby, even informally. And the tasks are at your host family's own address\nonly. You also may not take on tasks for someone who needs special care requiring a specific\nskill, such as a family member with a medical condition. How many hours these tasks may take is a\nseparate limit, covered in\n",[144,145,147],"a",{"href":146},"\u002Fen\u002Fguide\u002Fhours-what-counts","hours-what-counts",".",[129,150,152],{"id":151},"your-signed-schedule-is-your-actual-task-list","Your signed schedule is your actual task list",[125,154,155,156,160],{},"In practice, the daily schedule you signed with your host family before your permit was granted\nis the closest thing to an official list you have. It states which tasks you do and when. See\n",[144,157,159],{"href":158},"\u002Fen\u002Fguide\u002Fyour-signed-daily-schedule","your-signed-daily-schedule"," for what has to be in it. If a\ntask is not on it, that is the concrete thing to point at, rather than trying to argue about what\n\"light\" means in the abstract.",[129,162,164],{"id":163},"what-dutch-authorities-and-media-name-as-abuse","What Dutch authorities and media name as abuse",[125,166,167],{},"The examples the IND and Dutch reporting consistently point to are not ambiguous: deep cleaning\nthe whole house, ironing for the entire family, cooking every meal every day, and garden or\noutdoor maintenance. Cleaning for a neighbour or a grandmother falls outside your permit for a\ndifferent reason, it is not at your host family's address and not for your host family at all.",[129,169,171],{"id":170},"what-to-do-when-tasks-keep-getting-added","What to do when tasks keep getting added",[125,173,174],{},"If tasks are being added structurally rather than as an occasional favour, go back to your\nsigned schedule and raise it with your agency. Checking that you are not doing more or other work\nthan what was agreed is your agency's legal duty of care, not a favour they are doing you. This\narticle does not judge whether your family is in the wrong, it tells you where the line actually\nis.",{"title":176,"searchDepth":177,"depth":177,"links":178},"",2,[179,180,181,182,183],{"id":131,"depth":177,"text":132},{"id":138,"depth":177,"text":139},{"id":151,"depth":177,"text":152},{"id":163,"depth":177,"text":164},{"id":170,"depth":177,"text":171},"2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z","There is no official list of what light housework means, which is exactly why it becomes an argument. 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