Integrating employment support with childcare

Give parents greater support to get back into the workplace after starting a family by integrating employment support with existing funded early learning and childcare provision. We propose to provide workshops to help parents gain employment and job-seeking skills during funded childcare hours. This will enable parents take up their funded childcare places and get back into the workplace.

Parents who have taken a break to have children often find it difficult to get back into the workplace and may be lacking some of the skills they need to meet their employment potential. This results in more families being stuck in poverty.