Childcare vouchers are a popular employer-provided benefit, while some employers operate a workplace nursery.
These sorts of benefits are essential to help employees with children to balance their work and family life.
Nursery chain Bright Horizons has just announced a £10m investment in recruitment, retention and training. HR director Janine Leightley tells Personnel Today why this is important.
Single parents face unique challenges in gaining and staying in work since the pandemic, according to charity Gingerbread.
One in six parents has had to reduce their working hours because of difficulty accessing childcare.
According to the Early...
Approximately 2.6 million parents feel they have been treated less fairly at work because of their childcare responsibilities since the...
All schools in the UK will close from Friday until further notice in order to slow the spread of the...
A quarter of mothers do not return to the same employer after maternity leave because they feel the organisation’s practices...
Employees transferring to a new employer in a TUPE situation have the right to be consulted, but the rules on...
David Cameron announced today that the Government will bring forward its plan to double free childcare for working parents.
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HR needs to ensure parents sign up for childcare vouchers before April 6th’s tax exemption rates changes. The difference between...
Forty-four outstanding UK organisations have been shortlisted across 9 categories in the 2010 Top Employers for Working Families Awards.The awards, organised...
The cost of sending a child to a nursery in the UK has risen by more than 25% in five years, according to a survey by national childcare charity Daycare Trust.
A leading provider of workplace nurseries in the US has entered the UK market by acquiring a London-based nursery chain.Bright...
