A complete family friendly employee benefits package under one roof

We provide fantastic, practical solutions to individuals who have to combine work and family. We work with employers on their working parent and carer strategies AND can implement the employee solutions that are required.

Combining work and care is not always an easy balance. We are dedicated to making it better. Below is our story to date.

The My Family Care story so far...

1993 - Procter & Gamble decided it should do whatever it could to make P&G a great place to work for parents. In particular they wanted new mums to return to P&G despite the problems of combining work and family. One of the key elements of what P&G put in place was a dedicated childcare advice and guidance programme which was unique at the time. This service was run by Company Kids.

1994 - Oliver Black started at P&G (as a lowly sales and marketing exec on the Oil of Olay account). Ollie was amazed and impressed with all the things that P&G was doing for its employees and their childcare needs and resolved to become a big player in the childcare industry.

1998 - Company Kids is bought by BUPA and becomes BUPA Children @ Work.

2000 - Ollie convinces his brother Ben and Amanda Coxen, to help him buy Tinies, a bankrupt chain of 7 nanny agencies.

2004 - Children @ Work becomes BUPA Childcare.

2005 - Tinies has become the biggest nanny agency in the UK and the biggest supplier of staff to nurseries as well as the leading provider of creches. Ben Black has the idea that you could build a website that allowed parents to book whatever childcare they want when they want it - nannies, nurseries or childminders - and that allows companies to subsidise bookings however they see fit. Emergency Childcare is born. Meanwhile BUPA Childcare clients now include Pfizer, Merrill Lynch and Cisco.

2006 - Emergency Childcare wins Barclays Capital, the Met Police and IBM as clients and Emergency Homecare is born - an online backup domiciliary care service. Emergency Childcare is taken out of Tinies and put into a separate business. It is first called Emergency Childcare Limited, then Emergency Child and Home Care Limited, then The Family Care Company.

2007 - Emergency Childcare wins the Daily Telegraph's CPP Trailblazers young company of the year award. BUPA sells BUPA Childcare to The Family Care Company which then changes its name again and becomes My Family Care.

2008 - My Family Care expands its services, introducing Training Workshops and also advising companies on the care needs of their employees. New clients include Herbert Smith, KPMG and UBS. In August 2008 My Family Care wins Microsoft's People Moving Business Award for 'Most Innovative use of Mobile Technology'.

In autumn 2008 Allsave Vouchers joins with MFC to launch My Family Care Vouchers. In December 2008 MFC acquires Tinies UK Ltd - and their corporate childcare arm becomes our On-Site Childcare service. With Tinies' experience we are able to offer fixed creches, on-site holiday clubs and nurseries. We continue our work with Tinies' nanny agencies.

There is now a complete family friendly employee benefits offering under one roof - making My Family Care and our services unique in the UK.

2009 - My Family Care opens an office in Switzerland. In September we surveyed 5000 working parents. You can request the survey results now.

2010 - Career and maternity coach Laure Fau now oversees our coaching and workshop services for employers, working parents and working carers.

New clients include McGraw-Hill, whose employees now have free access to backup childcare and several free sessions of care per year.

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