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Childcare

  • Wednesday, 30 July, 2025
    Average cost of a nanny in London surges above £50,000 a year

    Wage growth of households and popularity of ‘hybrid’ nannies who provide extra services help boost pay

    Nannies graduating from Norland College, Bath
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Reader callout: do you use salary sacrifice schemes?

    Employers offer benefits from childcare vouchers to EVs so staff can avoid entering a higher tax bracket

    A young girl, sitting on a red mat, plays with a toy fire station set
  • Saturday, 19 July, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    The unspoken truth about the baby bust

    Why is it so hard to accept that it is happening out of choice?

    An empty playground surrounded by large trees on a misty day
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special Report
    Women in Business

    ‘Dad allies’ help shift childcare burden. Plus: the $10bn Black hair industry; Trump pushback hits US diversity efforts; how women can catch up on AI; businesswomen face surge in online abuse; career paths shaped by trauma; and why success can be a recipe for divorce

    A woman dressed in black sits in a hair salon chair smiling at the camera
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Rise of ‘dad allies’ helps shift childcare burden

    Research shows giving fathers adequate time off can help women’s careers, and in the UK men are campaigning for it

    Man holding a bright yellow “Dad Strike!” sign, baby strapped to chest, standing in a busy public square
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    UK tax
    Wish you weren’t here? Why people of all ages want to leave the UK

    Quitting the UK might save you a small fortune in tax, but could still cost you in other ways

    Illustration of a man holding a child, a businesswoman, and an elderly woman boarding a plane at sunset
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    UK politics
    500,000 more children in England to be eligible for free school meals

    PM expanding access as he seeks to head off backbench Labour rebellion over plan to cut welfare payments

  • Sunday, 4 May, 2025
    Work & Careers
    The rise of single parents by choice

    Navigating work and family brings particular pressures for those deciding to have children alone

    Annabel Dearing
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    Parenting and families
    MPs urge Rachel Reeves to extend paternity leave

    Calls on chancellor come as research suggests UK economy would benefit from more generous offering to new fathers

    A father holding a baby
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Personal Finance
    The madness of the £100,000 childcare tax trap

    With some parents requiring a 50 per cent pay rise to mitigate the effects of the threshold, the trap is zapping productivity

    Illustration of an impossible loop with people running, baby bottles and toys, and work objects like a laptop and headphones
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Women in business
    Why having a baby remains a career obstacle for women

    More mothers work but their earnings and promotions stagnate

    A woman with a baby stroller walking down a city street, with a pedestrian footbridge in the background
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    News in-depthGermany
    German childcare crisis leaves parents and businesses in lurch

    Staff shortages lead to frequent emergency closures, with working mothers struggling to cope

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  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    Soumaya Keynes
    Is there such a thing as too much parental leave?

    Done the wrong way, it can have awkward effects

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a small child drawing a graph on a wall with crayons
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Special ReportBest Employers: Asia-Pacific
    High childcare costs pose challenge for Australian business

    Despite government subsidies, the expense is pushing many women out of the workforce

    A man in a blue suit jacket and a little girl in a pink top walk down a Melbourne street
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Will women be the big losers from Rachel Reeves’ first Budget?

    National insurance increases will push up the cost of childcare and hit lower-paid part-time jobs

    Illustration of a woman using her laptop whilst holding a child, and with another child alongside
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Parents to be hit by ‘nanny tax’ after national insurance changes

    Families affected will be worse off by more than £1,000 a year

    A nanny reads a story to two young children
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    What the Budget means for your money

    Key measures on tax, investments, pensions and property

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  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Should we let friends share our nanny?

    How would this work in practice with pay, holiday and tax?

  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    OutlookMiranda Green
    Labour’s lofty education goals need outside innovators

    Experiments by academy schools — and without Treasury money — are key to solving problems for deprived families

    Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson holding her painting of sunflowers, alongside pupils Wyatt, aged 4 (left), and Aicha, aged 4, during a visit to the school-based nursery at Ark Start Oval, East Croydon
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    OutlookPatti Waldmeir
    Why childcare in the US is a problem for us all

    This is not just an issue for parents — employers need to be part of the solution

    Black and white photo from 1942 of a room full of toddlers having a rest period on small beds at a nursery
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Parenting and families
    UK among the most expensive countries to bring up twins

    Parents having two babies at once face financial hit of at least £20,000 in additional costs, according to Twins Trust report

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    High US childcare costs pose an election risk for Harris

    Vice-president vows to make daycare affordable but she would face hurdles in enacting reforms

    A child with face paint uses a phone at a trading post during the traditional bring-your-kids-to-work day on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. In the background, multiple monitors display financial data and stock charts.
  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    South Korea society
    South Korea bets on foreign housekeepers to ease women’s workloads and boost birth rate

    Seoul to welcome Filipina workers under new scheme designed to encourage women to have children

    Children and two adult women interact inside a daycare center in Chilgok, South Korea
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK tax
    HMRC clamps down on abuse of tax-saving workplace childcare scheme

    Employers are failing to meet the eligibility criteria as third party ‘agents’ reap profits, experts warn

    A child playing at nursery
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Staff shortages undermine manifesto plans to boost childcare in England

    Providers say ‘number one concern’ is lack of workers in low-wage sector

    Children sitting in an art classroom being taught by a teacher in the North East of England
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