Children had remained with English housekeeper (10)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

CH (children) ATE (had) LAIN (remained) E (English) I look forward to watching Simon Anthony discuss the abbreviation CH for ‘children’ in his YouTube video tomorrow. I don’t dispute it (it’s in Chambers and Collins) but I have never once seen it in a cryptic crossword puzzle.