Sky partners with UK’s largest nursery group to support working parents

Sky has partnered with global nursery provider, Busy Bees, to offer a workplace childcare solution to its working parents.

With more than 350 Busy Bees nurseries across the UK, this new partnership will provide more than 25,000 Sky employees with access to a childcare benefit solution, with 10 per cent off their childcare fees at all UK Busy Bees nurseries and further incentives to help parents return to work.

For nearly 10 years, Europe’s leading media and entertainment has run its own employee network, Parents at Sky. Made up of over 3,500 members, the platform is run by working parents to support families across Sky.

Cheryl Graham, Service Strategy Lead for Parents at Sky, said: “We are thrilled to partner with Busy Bees to support our working parents. Through our Parents at Sky network, we identified that we required additional childcare solutions, and we felt it was right to support our employees who may be struggling financially.

“By making childcare more accessible for our working parents, we believe this will have a positive impact on our employees’ wellbeing.”

Busy Bees is the UK’s largest childcare provider and has four decades of experience in providing a practical, child-centred approach to providing exceptional early years education. The group offers childcare solutions so that employers can offer working parents a workplace benefit.

Whether it’s through buying nursery places for emergency childcare or offering a childcare discount, Busy Bees childcare solutions will help businesses retain people longer, hire top talent, improve employee wellbeing, and foster workplace equality.

Antony Morrison, business sales director at Busy Bees at Work, added: “We are delighted to partner with Sky to offer childcare solutions to their employees.

“Work-life balance (65 per cent), mental health (46 per cent) and burnout (33 per cent) rank amongst the top five employee wellbeing concerns. It’s so important that families, especially parents returning to work, feel supported and have viable childcare options available to them.

“There is huge value in adding a childcare solution to your list of employee benefits and it’s great that Sky is now able to offer further support to working parents.”

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily

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