In a TV documentary, Addison Lee, the minicab and chauffeur business, has trialled a revolutionary babies in the office scheme, allowing employees who would otherwise be on maternity leave to bring...
Helicopter parents - those over-protective parents that hover over their children's every move through their education and into their career - were an unforeseen accompaniment when Generation Y...
Ahead of the expected announcement from the prime minister on the creation of a Childcare Commission, childcare and business organisations have called on the Government to provide greater childcare...
Over a third (38%) of parents have considered quitting their job because of childcare costs according to Daycare Trust and Mumsnet.
Childcare-voucher provider Busy Bees Benefits is launching a campaign to encourage the Government to look at increasing support for this employee benefit.
From this week, lone parents will start getting the help they need to look for work earlier rather than stay on benefits, the Government has announced.
A year ago, the coalition Government introduced additional paternity leave for fathers of children born on or after 3 April 2011.
Childcare costs now take up a third of working parents’ salaries, according to Hay Group’s PayNet UK Salary Tracker.
The CBI in Northern Ireland is backing a petition to increase awareness of the financial support available to working parents with childcare costs.
New figures compiled by Daycare Trust show above-inflation increases in the price of nursery care in Britain, with the hourly rate for a child aged under two up 5.8%. The increase for a child aged two...
Parents should be able to access financial support of up to £10,000 from the Government to pay for childcare, which they would then pay back as monthly contributions made through the tax system, a...
The chancellor George Osborne, yesterday announced more free childcare places for two-year-olds from “disadvantaged families”, but in doing so has failed to address the rising cost of childcare for...
