Childcare Vouchers - Employer

What are Childcare Vouchers?

If you have children up to the age of 16 in registered childcare you can use Childcare Vouchers to cover your costs.

Salary Sacrifice - How it Works

As part of a salary sacrifice scheme, each working parent may save up to £933.12* per year. To benefit from the scheme, parents simply exchange a part of their salary for the same amount of Childcare Vouchers and use them to pay the childcare provider of their choice. A popular employee benefit, Childcare Vouchers are non-taxable (up to £243 per parent, per month or £55 per parent, per week) and do not attract employer or employee National Insurance contributions. This saving can help significantly towards a parent's childcare costs.

As an employer benefit you can save money, improve staff retention and increase employee morale by introducing Childcare Vouchers to your workforce.

• Save money – vouchers are non-taxable and exempt from National Insurance, so even though you are required to pay a service charge, this cost will always be less than the employer NI saving
• Improve staff retention and morale – they encourage staff to return to work after maternity leave, as it offers a genuine money-saving benefit to your employees with children and their childcare will become more affordable
• Employees recognise Childcare Vouchers as a valuable employee benefit.

There are plenty of good reasons for you to choose Busy Bees Benefits as your provider.

• Your money is safe: as we are part of the UK's largest childcare provider, we understand the importance of secure payments. When we receive funds from an employer, we hold them in a trust account until they are paid to the appropriate carer. We don't use your funds to operate our business
• No contract: we don't require you to be tied into a long term contract, as we prefer to be judged on the quality of our service, and so you simply carry on ordering if you are happy with us. However, if required, we will be pleased to provide a Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• We have plenty of experience in the Childcare Voucher market and salary sacrifice schemes. Our team is a diverse group of people, who work closely together using their specialist skills and experience of the industry to provide you with a world class service
• We have developed childcare voucher schemes for thousands of organisations across different sectors. We will provide you with all the information and support that you need to increase the number of parents joining the scheme
• We also offer your members of staff additional discounts if they use our Vouchers at any participating Busy Bees nursery. By paying our nurseries with our Vouchers, parents will be able to help themselves to an additional five per cent discount on the value of the Voucher when paying their nursery fees
• Busy Bees salary sacrifice vouchers can be used to pay for all forms of registered childcare.

Paying your invoice

You can pay your invoice by BACs or Direct Debit. Please click here for more details