Child care is expensive. Even if you managed to find a Nanny who would work for the minimum adult wage i.e. £5.05 per hour from Oct 2005, it will cost you £151.50 per week for 30 hours, so £606 per month minimum and probably much more. That will be a large proportion of any student's monthly income. Sending your child to a nursery may be cheaper than hiring a Nanny? Your university may even have it's own crèche although there may well be a waiting list for places. Hope you can work something out.