Support and Services

Here we have a selection of businesses and services aimed at supporting working parents. Please do get in touch if you need more advice or information. As this part of mumandworking is in development don't forget to return regularly to catch our updates.

Experienced Grannies as Au Pair - Why Not? 

Granny-Aupair.com connects families in the UK with “replacement” Grannies  from all over the world, mainly Germany… and thus can offer an extra “MORE” in (life) experience.

Our company founded in Germany in 2010 is looking for families in the UK who would like to welcome an experienced English-speaking Granny Aupair to live with them, to play with and take care of their children. For a few weeks, for a couple of months, for a year or even two….whatever you need. Our Grannies have a lot of advantages over young au pairs: They have masses of life experience, are very reliable and provide love and comfort.

Granny Aupair has already placed more than 300 grannies in over 40 countries. There are no written requirements how a family should host a Granny - our Grannies are on a private trip and get free room (their own private room) and board in their families. Grannies and families may discuss a monetary allowance directly with each other.

More information at  www.granny-aupair.com

Childcare.co.uk is the UK's largest childcare search site.

If you are looking for local childcare then Childcare.co.uk can help. The site has over 150,000 childcare providers listed including over 60,000 babysitters, 25,000 nannies and 25,000 registered childminders.

Parents can register for free and create an advert detailing their specific childcare requirements. The advert will be seen by hundreds of potential local childcare providers and parents can read and reply to responses they receive for free. For more urgent childcare requirements, parents can optionally upgrade to Childcare.co.uk gold membership which allows parents to initiate contact with childcare providers and to view their direct contact where available. Gold membership starts at just £19.99 per month.

The site has helped over 250,000 parents find local childcare. You can read some of the success stories at www.childcare.co.uk/information/success-stories.

Start your local childcare search now at www.childcare.co.uk

Save up to £933.12 a year on your childcare costs!

The soaring cost of childcare is never far from the headlines and more and more we’re hearing how difficult it can be to find cost effective ways of handling your childcare needs.

In a recent study, Family Investments found that, on average, mums working full-time spend four months’ worth of their salary on childcare costs - Childcarescheme can not only help you manage these costs, but also offers considerable savings too.

Childcarescheme allows you to sacrifice a portion of your salary (tax free) to pay for your childcare costs. Savings of up to 42% (on the amount you sacrifice) mean you could be up to £933 better off per parent/guardian per year; that’s £1866 per couple per year.

You can use a carer of your choice, or nominate to use one of the carers registered and approved by Childcarescheme; managing payments for childcare is easy too by using Childcarescheme’s unique and secure online account.

Your employer will save money when offering Childcarescheme too by reducing the amount of Employer’s National Insurance Contributions they pay – this can be up to £402 per employee per year.

So, why not log on to www.childcarescheme.com and use our calculator to find out how much you could save?

The mumandworking Career Coach