The government has formally announced its plans to double free childcare hours for three and four-year-old children and expects to introduce the measures next year.
The vast majority of parents will be better off using childcare vouchers than the coalition's Tax-Free Childcare.
An assessment of parental needs has identified at least nine categories of employees who will be better off by remaining on the current childcare voucher scheme than utilising the incoming Tax-Free Childcare.
A Liberal Democrat government would provide 15 hours a week of free childcare to working parents of all children aged between nine months and three years.
The vast majority of employers welcome shared parental leave and many have either put a new policy in place or are well on the road to doing so.
The majority of Britons want to share childcare responsibilities equally, with men more positive about the issue than women.
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Retaining talented employees is an ongoing challenge for many organisations, but never has it been seemingly such a challenge to retain one particular demographic of the UK workforce, as Hannah Uttley writes.
GSK has given its employees more control in how they deal with their caring responsibilities. Nick Martindale examines how the approach has worked.
Employers that offer enhanced maternity packages for women could find themselves open to sex discrimination claims as shared parental leave comes into force today, Glassdoor warns.