Your employees are asking for help with childcare, but what is your role as an employer and why is it your business? What is the role of childcare in the context of ‘Making Work Pay’?
This lively discussion takes a down-to-earth and practical look at the needs of employees and the role of employers in offering support. What are the best employers offering? What are the benefits and supports that really make a difference? Is childcare really part of the employer’s role? What are the rules around providing tax-exempt support if we do want to help? How can we ensure we are being inclusive of wider groups? Explore these questions and more in this open and interactive discussion.
Childcare has been recognised as part of business infrastructure, and key to workforce participation and economic growth. Research by Business LDN and KPMG showed that increasing the employment rate among parents with children under five by 250,000 could increase UK GDP by up to £11.3bn per annum, and bring an annual boost to UK public finances of up to £3.2bn. Recent increases in childcare funding might be expected to meet this need, but your employees may still be struggling to find the places they need and also struggling to fill the gaps in care whether school holidays and when they day-to-day arrangement fall through. Research shows productivity falls when childcare is not available.
Discover the real impact in terms of retaining working parents, reducing stress and mental load and increasing engagement. Understand the productivity and performance impacts of providing practical support.
Speakers
- Paul Quarterly, Enterprise Sales Lead, Bright Horizons
- Kerri Haseman, Head of Client Relations, Bright Horizons
- Chaired by Jennifer Liston-Smith, Head of Thought Leadership, Bright Horizons
