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...

Childcare support will be paid to around 80,000 more households, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg and welfare secretary Iain Duncan Smith have announced.

Working parents are unaware of the financial benefits that could be available to them through their employer, according to a survey commissioned by Co-Operative Employee Benefits.

On 30 June teachers and civil servants in the UK took strike action over the proposed changes to their working conditions.

In recent months, childcare issues have risen up both the corporate and political agendas. Speaking in January, at an event organised by thinktank Demos, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg slammed the...