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Here we are-at the dawn of the summer holidays already. A time that is dreaded by most parents and carers with school-age children when it comes to juggling work and family.

It can be difficult for other colleagues to comprehend this juggle, especially when they don’t have children or dependents.

However, there are many things that you as parents and carers can do to ensure...

• The Balancing Act: Half of UK parents (51%) admit their job prevents them from maintaining a healthy work-life balance when it comes to their children and 70% wish they had more time for their kids
• The Need for Change: Self-employment ranked as the most attractive (33%) among parents looking for new careers to allow them a better work-parenting balance
• New Career
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• Interventions focus on removing barriers to work for people at any age and career stage
• Parents on Universal Credit will be further supported with upfront childcare costs
• Boost to employment support for disabled people and those with health
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• New TUC analysis finds more than 1.46 million women are kept out of the labour market because of their caring responsibilities
• Women in their 30s are hardest hit – one in 10 women in this age group drop out of the jobs market because of pressures of looking after their family
• Union body calls for funded childcare and flexible working rights for all to keep women in
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• Women facing work barriers due to caring to be helped back to careers
• Minister for Women and Equalities invests in pilot to get returners into STEM
• 43% of STEM vacancies are hard to fill; women make up 29.4% of the STEM workforce; 75,000 STEM returners
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• new government-backed law to offer pregnant women and new parents greater protection against redundancy
• new legal powers will help to counter workplace discrimination, particularly when new parents return to work

Pregnant women and new parents will receive...

NEW LEAGUE TABLE RANKS UK COMPANIES’ PATERNITY PACKAGES REVEALING HALF OF PARENTS NOT HAPPY WITH LEAVE OFFERED

• A new ‘Paternity League’ table reorders the top 50 ‘Best Places to Work’ list based on their paternity leave offering
• It comes as research reveals almost half of parents (46%) who have children aged five or under have been dissatisfied with their paternity
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Research from Yoppie , the pioneers of personalised, organic period care delivered through your letterbox, has found that while remote working has improved pressures around appearance and PMS for women within the workplace, issues of fair representation and equal pay remain prevalent.

When surveyed by Yoppie, nearly a quarter of the women stated that one of the biggest issues they...

17% INCREASE IN ENERGY SPEND DURING THE PANDEMIC AS THE NATION WORKS FROM HOME

But Switching Energy Providers Could Offset the Jump in Bills

A combination of recurring lockdowns and the new ‘normal’ of working from home has led to a rise in average annual energy costs over the past year, as Brits spend more time at home. With working from home possibly becoming a permanent...