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Childcare

Childcare benefits are among the most important that an employee can offer, to help employees with children to balance their work and family life.

Childcare vouchers are a popular employer-provided benefit, while some employers operate a workplace nursery.


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    Why 2025 is ‘make or break’ for your working families (webinar)

    by Rob Moss 25 Feb 2025
    by Rob Moss 25 Feb 2025

    ON-DEMAND | Watch our webinar on the key trends among working parents and carers and how employers can respond.

    • Stress
    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare

    Working parents increasingly stressed

    by Rob Moss 13 Jan 2025
    by Rob Moss 13 Jan 2025

    Working parents increasingly stressed as number of employees who say employer is highly supportive of family life falls by nearly a third.

    • Childcare
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    • Flexible working

    Childcare and flexible working: proof it can be done

    by Euan Cameron 28 Dec 2024
    by Euan Cameron 28 Dec 2024

    Some frontline sectors such as childcare are often assumed to be 'too difficult' to implement flexible working. But almost any profession can embrace it.

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Financial wellbeing

    Financial and mental wellbeing at Christmas 

    by John Mullally 19 Dec 2024
    by John Mullally 19 Dec 2024

    With Christmas just a matter of days away, John Mullally asks employers to consider their financial and mental wellbeing provisions.   

    • Childcare
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    Retention payments to tackle decline in armed forces

    by Rob Moss 22 Nov 2024
    by Rob Moss 22 Nov 2024

    MoD announces new retention payments in ‘decisive action’ to tackle the long-term decline in Armed Forces numbers.

    • Auto-enrolment
    • Childcare
    • Latest News

    Childcare costs stop millennials from saving for retirement

    by Jo Faragher 30 Sep 2024
    by Jo Faragher 30 Sep 2024

    Six in 10 millennials are struggling to save for retirement thanks to childcare responsibilities, Phoenix Group has revealed.

    • Nursery provision
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    • Latest News

    HMRC to clamp down on misapplied childcare scheme

    by Jo Faragher 19 Jul 2024
    by Jo Faragher 19 Jul 2024

    HM Revenue & Customs is clamping down on employers that may have wrongly used a government benefit to reduce childcare costs for staff.

    • Benefits
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    • Apprenticeships

    Bright Horizons: ‘New government must raise status of childcare profession’

    by Jo Faragher 3 Jul 2024
    by Jo Faragher 3 Jul 2024

    Bright Horizons’ executive HR director Janine Leightley sets out what the sector would like to see from a new government.

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Latest News

    Labour to create 100,000 additional childcare places

    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2024
    by Jo Faragher 10 Jun 2024

    The Labour party has pledged to create 100,000 additional childcare places and 3,000 new nurseries if it wins the election.

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Latest News

    Employees with access to company childcare do more in-office hours

    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2024
    by Jo Faragher 6 Jun 2024

    Employers offering company childcare see greater in-office time from employees, according to a survey by Bright Horizons.

    • Childcare
    • Department for Education
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    Childcare expansion: risks could have been avoided

    by Jo Faragher 24 Apr 2024
    by Jo Faragher 24 Apr 2024

    A National Audit Office report has revealed that testing the free childcare hours rollout could have avoided some risks.

    • Benefits
    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare

    Free childcare plans: 40,000 extra staff needed by September 2025

    by Adam McCulloch 19 Apr 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 19 Apr 2024

    About 40,000 extra staff are needed if the government is to fulfil its pledge to offer 30 free hours of childcare to all pre-school children by September next year.

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Latest News

    Parents’ plans to increase hours hampered by childcare access

    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Apr 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 2 Apr 2024

    Parents plan to increase their working hours as they become eligible for free childcare hours, but many struggle to access places.

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Latest News

    Two-thirds of councils lack childcare places for full-time workers

    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Mar 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 19 Mar 2024

    Only one in three councils in England have enough childcare places for full-time workers, a charity's survey finds.

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    World Bank: how equality for women would boost global GDP

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2024
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2024

    A report from international development organisation the World Bank that exposes a ‘massive’ gender gap across the global workforce.

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