Workplace Nursery Provision: Employers

How the workplace nursery provision can help your business:

  • Offers full support to employees in their return-to-work decision

  • Attract and retain key members of staff

  • Enable employees to save money on the cost of a nursery place

  • Become and employer of choice by offering an exceptional benefit

Staff Retention

Helps you retain staff, their experience and talents at no extra cost to the business.

Attract the best

Helps attract high calibre new staff.

Return to work

Makes the return to work decision easier for all new parents.

Happy Staff

Improves employees work/life balance.

WNP Saving Example:

For example, if you were paying nursery fees of

£1,200 a month you could save:

basic rate tax payer
£0
Saving per year
Higher rate tax payer
£0
Saving per year

Savings possible for your employees with workplace nursery benefit

The workplace nursery benefit allows far greater levels of saving that are possible with the governments tax free childcare scheme. A parent eligible for the tax free childcare scheme would save £2000 a year, whereas a basic rate tax payer with nursery fees of £1400 a month would save £3192 a year with the workplace nursery benefit. For higher rate tax payers, the advantages of the benefit are more pronounced, with nursery fees of £1400 a month, they will save £5838 a year.

Monthly Childcare Costs Saving With Workplace Nursery Benefit For Basic Rate Taxpayer Saving With Workplace Nursery Benefit For Higher Rate Taxpayer
£800 £1,824 £3,336
£1,000 £2,280 £4,170
£1,200 £2,736 £5,004
£1,500 £3,420 £6,255
£1,700 £3,876 £7,089
£2,000 £4,560 £8,340

How much your business saves

WNP Employer Overview

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The Workplace Nursery Benefit allows your business to work in partnership with a chosen nursery, or nurseries that are then used by your employees. This enables your employees to save Tax and National Insurance payments on ALL of
their nursery fees from birth up to the age of 5 (or when the child goes to school). This benefit is worth thousands of pounds in savings each year to an employee.
Run by us on your behalf, this benefit enables your employees to use a nursery that works best for them in terms of style, location and cost.
The cost of the benefit is taken out of their gross salary.
By offering your employees access to the Workplace Nursery Benefit, you are also helping employees with their return to work decision.

Parents typically pay for childcare from the birth of their child up to around the age of 12 years old. Childcare costs are heavily loaded with the early years from birth to 5 years being the most expensive.
Most parents will choose to use a nursery for the care of their child when they return to work but they quickly discover that the cost of care is often more than their mortgage or monthly rent. The average cost of nursery fees in the UK is now around £1400 a month but in London the monthly cost is much higher at around £1700-£2000 per month.

As such, this cost will heavily influence a new parents return to work decision, adding to the emotion of leaving a baby in the care of someone else.

  • There must be financial support from the employer to the partnered nursery
  • This is £1800 per year which can be paid monthly or annually
  • This is offset against the Employers NIC savings made
  • An additional annual payment to the partnered nurseries to cover any losses- again this is offset against the Employers NIC savings
  • The employer (where possible) will provide additional support to their partnered nurseries in the form of resources, volunteering days and business skills

As nursery costs can be high, you must ensure that any employee choosing the benefit, won’t drop below minimum wage as a result of the monthly deduction. If this was to be the case the employee wouldn’t be able to access the benefit using salary sacrifice. The scheme must be open to all of your staff.

The nursery must be able to factor the nursery contribution into their planning and budgeting, whether the child stays at the nursery or not. Should an employee wish to stop using the benefit before the stated end of the contract, the nursery contribution must continue to be paid. 

Prior to implementing the Workplace Nursery Benefit, we recommend that you amend your policy documents to advise employees on how you will operate this benefit with regards redundancy, employees moving nurseries or leaving the company etc.

If you have a company mission statement that will influence how the nursery contribution is spent, we can add this to the notes and preferences we hold for you. As an example, if the company is committed to reducing plastic use and recycling, you can stipulate that the contribution should only be used to purchase items that are not plastic based or be put towards environmentally positive projects.

As you will be working in partnership with chosen nurseries, we would ask that you look at ways the business can enhance these
relationships. This can include:

Adding each nursery to your Corporate and Social Responsibility programme.

On the initial meeting calls with your employees and the nurseries, we will ask if there are any resources that the business can provide in addition to the finance. Some examples include old phones or keyboards for the children to play with in the nursery “home corner”, trade magazines for the children to cut up to develop fine motor skills, old point of sale material etc.

You may allow employees to participate in volunteering days. If so, your employees could choose to help at the nurseries with projects such as a garden re-vamps, day trips out of the nursery etc.

Workplace Nursery Provision

A network of nurseries

We work with nurseries across the UK and are adding new ones all the time.

We have a network of nurseries that we currently work with to offer this benefit to companies and this list grows daily. If a parent would like to use a nursery that we don’t currently partner with, we will contact them to discuss how the benefit can help them and their nursery parents.

  • Enhances employee retention rates
  • This is a great way to attract the best candidates

  • This saves your employees money and the company

  • As an employer supported benefit, this helps to set you apart from your competitors

  • Workplace nurseries are a great way to show your employees that they are valued and, in turn, help you to retain highly skilled members of your workforce.

Employers feedback

Setting up my agreement with Enjoy Benefits for my daughter’s nursery fees was quick and easy and it has benefitted both my family and the nursery financially to quite considerable sums. As a family, we’ve saved £1400 in six months which has been a huge help. To think we’ll be almost £3,000 better off at the end of 12 months is staggering. My daughter’s nursery has used the money it received to improve its garden area. It’s a winning situation all round.
Claire Sanderson, Editor-in-Chief, Women’s Health and mum to two-year-old Nell
Work Place Nursery is a superb benefit to both employer and employee. We manage our scheme via Enjoy Benefits and I highly recommend them. I see the scheme from both sides of the administration, as an employer and an employee with two children in nursery. The initial paperwork is easy to set-up and the office support from Enjoy Benefits is very efficient. Meeting the Enjoy Benefits co-ordinator at the nursery is always a pleasure and they have always been equally efficient and responsive.
I’m delighted to use the scheme via Enjoy Benefits and share the benefits it affords to the company I work for and the colleagues I work with.
Mrs Forster, Parent and employer, Westminster
I’ve really had a very good saving with the workplace benefits and I’m really happy I have been told about these benefits by my company and by workplace benefits team.

It’s not only me who benefits of that, but is also, the nursery, the £100 they get every month I’m sure this is helpful to buy more toys and develop staff skills, etc.

For the money I have saved, all will go to my son account to make sure when he will grow he will be able to go to a good school.

I have talked about the workplace benefits to everyone I know, to make sure others families can save as well some of the nursery costs, as in UK these are very high comparing others countries.

Simona Aldea , Akwell Automotives

I personally have found the Workplace nursery scheme easy to set up and I know my nursery are really pleased we are going down this route and my boss I happy to be getting a saving too so it is definitely a win all round!….. I cannot recommend the scheme enough and as the person in charge of HR and the benefits within my organisation. It would definitely be the route I would recommend, should the need come up for a colleague in the future.

Ms. Thomas, Employer and parent
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