Day: March 5, 2017

More than half of unemployed parents would look for work in order to take advantage of the 30 hours free childcare for 3 and 4 year olds being promised by the Government according to research done for the Department for Education.

According to a  survey of parents by Ipsos MORI, of the 300 not in work, the majority of whom will be mothers,  60% said they would  ‘likely’ or definitely seek work to become eligible for the the extended entitlement.

The key reasons were that the extra hours would reduce the cost of childcare and would enable parents to work for longer hours.

The full report can be ready here

Our new partnership with this inspirational group of Women  in Croydon is going from strength to strength with nearly all the women seeking help to move either into work or on to training programmes.

The group recently undertook a project of identifying what employers are looking for and what they are a group can offer and came up with this fantastic poster which reads Woman who manages the family can manage the world!