Childcare Vouchers - has anyone sucessfullly persuaded an employer to join scheme?

[mummaberry]

Finding childcare very expensive and would like to use childcare vouchers - my work has a scheme but my husband's does not - (quite dissapointing considering he works for a charity)

Have suggested he tried to persuade them to join a scheme - has anyone done this successfully? If so, it would be great to know how you went about persuading your employer??

have a look at the providers sites they have the business case there - it does save the organisation a bit of money as they don't have to pay employer NI on that part of the pay I think

You need to convince them it can be cost neutral. I used to work for a big employer who didn't do them, several of us raised it a management-staff consultative forum, they looked into it and agreed (and they were generally fairly tight on employee benefits, statutary minimum maternity pay for example). Probably need to get a good idea of the percentage of the workforce who would be likely to use the scheme.

Whilst it does save some money for the business, when women are only on SMP the compay still has to give them the childcare vouchers which can have quite an impact on small businesses and charities. It puts a lot off.

DH did. He did all the research, paperwork, business case etc. Convinced his boss it wascost neutral and beneficial to all, allowed them to tick their "Family friendly" box and so on.

as an employer i cannot see why they would not join a scheme - we are a small business and the scheme actually saves us money in National Insurance
they costs are only 2% to us and we use Kiddy Vouchers and it was really easy to set up - just downloaded from Kiddy Voucher web site - filled in our personal bits and sent it off to HMRC who send back agreement within a few weeks

I agree with HappyMummy that the nonsense over SMP is starting to put firms off. Before this emerged it was relatively easy to argue that they had nothing to lose.

How do that work then, the SMP thing? I thought it was salary sacrifice, so you could only sacrifice what you would have earnt? Our scheme didn't start till I was back from last mat. leave so I didn't need to know about that.

I asked my employer politely and they kindly agreed. I didn't have to try particularly hard. I work for a small company (20-30 people) and I am the only person participating in the scheme.

How does I mean, not how do.

Have been recomended the Busy Bees company as being very hassle free by the HR person at my office.
Have also made the case to DH to pass on to his - but apparently they are not going to consider the issue untill next year.
Really bloody helpful - Wondering why it isn't compulsory for employers to enable their staff to access a free beneft! :(

My company doesn't actually belong to a scheme - just pay direct to the organisation that would have got the vouchers had they done a voucher scheme - seems to work fine.