Child care facility has become a necessity for the increasing urban nuclear parents. Finding a standard daycare with a nurturing and responsive staff is one of the main concern of the working parents with infants and toddlers. Also, studies have shown that young kids can gain the benefits from being enrolled in daycare facilities at an early age.
Little Big World, a leading Corporate Childcare provider in West India, surveyed over 5000 + working couples across India , the survey highlighted that corporate childcare is a growing and pressing concern that needs customized solution. In terms of priorities parents consider distance, safe facility, infrastructure & staff as important parameters to enroll their child in an Onsite Creche.
ProEves, leading Childcare Benefit Management Company, highlights below the recent developments wrt Corporate Childcare/Creche Mandate
1. Ministry of
Women and Child provides a hotline email id for employees to crowd source names
of companies that are non compliant in January
2. Ministry of Women and Child releases National Minimum Guidelines for
Corporate Crèche for companies who are unable to proceed forward on crèche
compliance due to absence of any guidelines
3. 85% of companies are complying by providing Near to Office Daycare Tieup (at
a distance of under 3/5 km)
4. Most companies are budgeting for funding the benefit from April-2019
Chirag Shah, co-founder of Little Big World states “Off Late, companies have approached us for a setting up a child-care facility on their premises to build a larger agenda of compliance and engagement. Increasingly companies are realizing that Childcare Benefit could work as a retention and engagement tool to build Gender Diversity in the Organization. ”
Little Big World a leading factory crèche operator works along with the corporate esp in Remote/Factory settings :
- To undertake the difficult task of ensuring that malnutrition kids coming from extremely underprivileged background are given timely vaccinations, special diet meals are planned for them.
- They even organize educational workshops for parents, translate the children’s learning material into the local language to involve parents more.
- Regular hygiene education, health check-ups & periodic visits by different medical experts are arranged for the parents.
Little Big World Has Open–To–All facilities at IT parks in:
- Hinjewadi, Pune
- Kharadi, Pune
- Hadapsar, Pune
- Goregaon, Mumbai
- Whitefield, Bangalore &
- Gachibowli, Hyderabad.
Their captive centres are:
- Cummins – Kothrud
- Cummins – Balewadi
- Suzlon – Magarpatta
- Cummins – Phaltan
- Ferrero – Baramati
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