For working parents and carers, the competing demands of work and family and/or caring responsibilities have a significant impact on their job and happiness at work and therefore on their health and wellbeing. Personal performance, job focus, and attendance can all be affected, ultimately impacting on the morale and productivity of staff.
HIOW Health and Wellbeing Support Service would like your feedback around a proposal to offer a package of back up care to staff through an organisation such as Bright Horizons which offers back up care to staff in an emergency. Bright Horizons have a network of vetted caregivers that they use to provide the cover.
Back up care is available for staff to book at short notice when usual care arrangements have broken down. Care is available for all ages and most care needs.
