A selection of articles featured in the national press relating to Childcare Vouchers and Early Years Childcare Vouchers.
Budget 2010 - changes to childcare vouchers...
Although Gordon Brown made a u-turn on his original plan, there has still been a change to the scheme that will take effect as of 6th April 2011. The new rules will only apply to individuals who join a scheme on or after the 6th April 2011 and they will not apply to employees who are already in a scheme by that date. The maximum tax and NI free voucher value will be based on the employees basic earnings, after deducting personal allowance
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Goverment U-turn on childcare voucher tax relief
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BBC News Explains What Childcare Vouchers Involves
A group of senior MPs are calling for a rethink on plans to scrap the childcare voucher scheme, where parents receive a tax-break on money spent on childcare.
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Early Years Speak to City Talk Radio
Amanda Ward, Director of Early Years Vouchers Limited spoke to City Talk Radio with regards to childcare vouchers being axed and how it would effect parents.
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Childcare Vouchers Saved Us
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PM warned over childcare vouchers
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Voucher price is right for employers
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Plans to bin childcare vouchers faces rethink
Number 10 has been hit by a protest from former ministers and a publi petition on its website calling on Mr Brown to reconsider scrapping the tax break, worth up to £2,400 a year for parents.
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Even small firms using childcare vouchers can save money
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UK teachers miss out on thousands of pounds in benefits
News from Jobs4mothers.com - May 2009
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How childcare vouchers can benefit carer's too
News from Child Care magazine July 2008
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Few parents take up offer for childcare vouchers
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Childcare vouchers can benefit companies
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Save money with your firm by taking childcare vouchers
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Childcare is something that is necessary with working parents
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Childcare vouchers can save parents £1,000s a year
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Childcare vouchers may be axed
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Campaign against the government decision to scrap childcare vouchers
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Government announcement to scrap childcare vouchers by April 2015
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Staff benefits and allowances 2009: childcare vouchers top the list
Childcare vouchers have the added advantage of tax and national insurance savings for employers, and many provide them as part of a salary-sacrifice scheme up to the tax-free limit of £243 a month.
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Working Dads take-up Early Years childcare vouchers scheme at Calyon investment bank.
Early Years Vouchers Ltd, one of the UK's leading childcare allowance organisations, has announced that the London-based division of Calyon, Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity, has noted a consistent increase in the take-up of tax-free childcare vouchers by eligible employees, especially amongst working Dads. Currently, 77 per cent of Calyon employees who use Early Years Vouchers are working Dads.
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Top Five Reasons why Employers should offer childcare vouchers to employees
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Rapid take up of childcare voucher benefit at TBWA
Early Years Vouchers Ltd (EYVL), one of the UK's leading childcare allowance organisations, has announced the rapid take up of its vouchers at TBWA\Manchester - one of the UK's top creative agencies with clients, such as ghd, Nissan, and BP - with 12 per cent of its employees signing up to the scheme in the first six months. For the first time, TBWA\Manchester now offers its employees the benefit of tax and N.I. savings up to £1,195 per annum. The business operates as part of the TBWA global agency network, and the EYVL Gold Service ensures that the company provides childcare vouchers to all employees without any additional administration for TBWA\Manchester's HR department.
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Kellogg selects Early Years Vouchers as its childcare voucher provider
Kellogg, the world's leading producer of cereal and convenience foods, has selected Early Years Vouchers Ltd, one of the UK's leading childcare allowance organisations, to implement its nationwide UK voucher scheme for its employees. The scheme is a major part of the Kellogg business' benefits programme, allowing it to enhance its workforce's remuneration packages at no cost, and enabling parents to make significant cost savings on childcare.
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Endemol employees reap rewards of new childcare voucher scheme
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All3Media choose Early Years Vouchers for its flexible service and personal attenton
ALL3MEDIA use EYVL's childcare voucher scheme as part of employee benefits package following a competitive evaluation with other major childcare voucher providers
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Customer views of EYVL's childcare voucher scheme:
Tony Stevenson, Kellogg"This kind of scheme is a ‘no-brainer' from an employer's point of view. It not only benefits the company by aiding staff retention and attracting new employees, but also enables it to enhance employees' remuneration packages at no extra cost to the business. EYVL sets itself apart from other childcare allowance organisations by providing a truly personable service - something you can experience by just calling them. You are referred to by name, as an individual and not just a number routed through a call centre."
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Thousands of childcare providers now registered with Early Years Vouchers Ltd
Over 2,000 child carers are now using leading childcare allowance organisation - Early Years Vouchers Ltd • Includes childminders, after school clubs and nurseries such as Leapfrog and BUPA's Teddies Nurseries.
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Martyn Lewis - Money Saving Expert says of childcare vouchers
Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis tips childcare voucher schemes as one of the top ways to save money on childcare over the school holidays
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Childcare vouchers can be used for so many types of childcare
Working parents are not aware they can save up to £200 a month on breakfast and after-school club costs with childcare vouchers • Many parents don't know that Childcare Vouchers cover childcare for school children aged 5 to 16 - not just pre-schoolers
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Parents who don't use vouchers are crazy!
Mum-of-one, Katy Jamieson, is a part-time Solicitor at Lightfoot Solicitors who started using vouchers to pay towards her childcare costs in March of this year.
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Working Dads Claim vouchers
Simon Wagner is a Dad-of-three who works as a Financial Controller at PGS Exploration. For the last year, Simon has been taking the maximum amount of £243 each month in tax deductable childcare vouchers.
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