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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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    • Carers

    ‘Work from home if you can’ – government tightens restrictions

    by Rob Moss 22 Sep 2020
    by Rob Moss 22 Sep 2020

    Boris Johnson has confirmed that people should work from home if they can in a statement to the House of...

    • Offices
    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare

    CMI chief: Return to office could create two-tier workforce

    by Jo Faragher 14 Sep 2020
    by Jo Faragher 14 Sep 2020

    Pushing people back into the office risks creating a two-tier system where ‘white middle-aged males’ are making important decisions, Chartered...

    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion

    Jo Swinson: ‘Inequality may be lasting legacy of pandemic’

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Sep 2020

    Progress in addressing gender inequality has stalled during the lockdown, but the new ways of working it has bought could...

    • Childcare
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Shared parental leave

    Top UK employers urged to disclose parental leave and pay

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jul 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Jul 2020

    Employers warned they could lose out on the best talent if they do not include transparency over family friendly working arrangements.

    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News

    Seven ways of dealing with return-to-work childcare issues

    by Jo Moseley 26 Jun 2020
    by Jo Moseley 26 Jun 2020

    Although more workplaces will reopen on 4 July, schools and other childcare settings such as holiday clubs are unlikely to...

    • Benefits
    • Childcare
    • Carers

    One in four working carers consider leaving job

    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Jun 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 24 Jun 2020

    A quarter of working carers have considered giving up their job as they are unable to balance their career and...

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Education

    Plan to fully reopen primary schools before summer scrapped

    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jun 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 9 Jun 2020

    Plans to allow all primary school children in England to return to the classroom before the summer holidays have been...

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Career development

    Lockdown pressures on mothers could stall gender pay gap progress

    by Ashleigh Webber 27 May 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 27 May 2020

    Childcare pressures and a reduction in paid working hours brought about by the lockdown could risk reversing some of the...

    • Shielding
    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare

    Return to work: employers’ questions answered

    by Joanne Moseley 14 May 2020
    by Joanne Moseley 14 May 2020

    Can our office reopen yet? Do we have to provide staff with PPE? Many concerns about the return to work...

    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus
    • Gender

    Coronavirus will widen gender gaps at work and home

    by Jo Faragher 14 May 2020
    by Jo Faragher 14 May 2020

    More women will lose their jobs than men and the coronavirus will widen gender gaps both at work and at...

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Carers

    Top 10 HR questions March 2020: Coronavirus

    by Brightmine 2 Apr 2020
    by Brightmine 2 Apr 2020

    The coronavirus pandemic dominated the top 10 most popular FAQs in March.
    The coronavirus outbreak is having a big impact...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus

    Acas working from home guidance: be ‘practical, flexible and sensitive’

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Mar 2020

    Acas has published new best practice guidance on working from home as more employers ask staff to avoid workplaces amid...

    • Nursery provision
    • Childcare
    • Coronavirus

    Schools to close from Friday until further notice

    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 18 Mar 2020

    All schools in the UK will close from Friday until further notice in order to slow the spread of the...

    • Coronavirus
    • Childcare
    • Financial wellbeing

    Coronavirus: Workday staff to receive financial support

    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 17 Mar 2020

    HR technology firm Workday is to make a one-off payment to staff to help prevent financial hardship during the coronavirus...

    • Nursery provision
    • Benefits
    • Enhanced pay

    Quarter of women leave for another employer after career break

    by Jo Faragher 11 Mar 2020
    by Jo Faragher 11 Mar 2020

    A quarter of mothers do not return to the same employer after maternity leave because they feel the organisation’s practices...

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