We truly believe it takes more than recruitment to run an exceptional household. You need the standards and the systems behind it, or the best staff in the world will still be working from memory.
Most households run on memory. Staff change. Routines get lost. What one House Manager knew, the next one has to guess.
Thorough, discreet vetting of everyone who enters your world, before they start, or on anyone already inside it.
Every protocol, preference, and routine, written down, so nothing depends on memory or on one person staying.
A structured process for every new hire, so day one runs the same whether it's your fifth staff member or your fiftieth.
Signed, on file, and enforceable, protecting your privacy before anyone sets foot inside.
Health and safety, emergency procedures, and household routines, reviewed and kept current, not written once and forgotten.
A clear-eyed review of how your home runs today, from staffing and structure to gaps and risks, so you know exactly where you stand before anything changes.
In plain terms: we take what lives in one person's head and put it in writing, so your household runs the same way regardless of who is in it.
Every system we put in place is built around your household specifically, not a template.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about what your household actually needs.
Fifteen years inside private households at the highest level, from principal residences in the Gulf to estates in Europe, as a British nanny, governess, and head of childcare teams. A Middle East specialist, on the ground in the Gulf, not in an office in London. The Private Standard was founded on what those years taught her: the right people, properly trained, thoroughly vetted, working to one written standard.
Every engagement is overseen by Lynsay personally.
Supporting households across Europe, the UK and beyond. Wherever your residences are, the standard travels with you.