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09-Jan-09

Salary sacrifice - Benefits

Paul G

08-Dec-08

The unique benefits of attending nursery and pre-school

Three-year-olds get a lot out of being with other children. Nothing that you can do can make up for the excitement that other children provide. If your child isn't going to be in nursery school or with a childminder who also looks after other children, you'll need to make an extra effort to >>>

ClariCare Team

02-Dec-08

The rising costs of childcare

Parents are struggling to afford childcare as the cost of a nursery place continues to rise faster than inflation and has reached nearly twenty five per cent of the average household income, according to a new report out by the charity Daycare Trust. >>>

ClariCare Directors

01-Dec-08

Childcare Vouchers and Maternity Leave

Recent changes to the Sex Discrimination (NI) order 1976 and Maternity and Parental Leave Regulations (NI) 1999 place a requirement upon employers to treat the additional maternity leave period in the same way as the ordinary maternity leave period, with regard to the provision of non cash benefits.  This includes childcare vouchers. >>>

BBC Website

25-Nov-08

Division over lone parent work reform

Ministers are planning to force single parents to look for a job once their youngest child hits 12, or risk losing their benefits.

The changes in benefits are part of an ambitious programme of reforms planned by the government. Their aim is to achieve an 80% employment rate which will involve getting hundreds of thousands of long-term jobless, disabled and lone parents back to work. >>>