Spring Updates
Nanny Insurance
The National Association of Childminders (NCMA) is offering membership and public liability insurance for £59.99, if you join before 31/3/10. Call 08458800044 or www.ncma.org.uk/nanny
Membership provides - :
• dedicated support and advice including legal helpline
• fact sheets on nannying
• bi monthly membership magazine
• Discount on MNT training courses
Access to NCMA saver.co.uk giving you discount vouchers for brands and high street stores
Legislative changes
From Oct 2009 Statutory Redundancy pay was increased from £350 gross to £380 gross per week
From April 2010 Statutory Maternity Pay, Paternity Pay and Adoption Pay will increase to £124.08 per week
SSP remains at £79.15 per week
"Fit" rather than "sick" notes: Fit notes are expected to be introduced in Spring 2010. The aim of the new fit note will be to provide greater information to employers on an employee's medical condition. The idea is to give GPs the opportunity to state if the patient is fit for work, for some work, or for no work at all and to comment on whether adjustments at work would be beneficial.
Childcare vouchers
Childcare vouchers have been in the news recently as the Government has reconsidered tax relief on employer-provided vouchers. Existing tax relief on vouchers will be retained for the time-being but will be phased out over the next 5 years.
From 2011, employees taking up childcare vouchers for the first time will only be eligible for basic rate tax relief of 20%. This relief will be scrapped for all users of childcare vouchers by 2015.
