Private Sector: BUPA childcare branch sold to back-up service

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 2 August 2007

The private healthcare firm BUPA has sold its corporate childcare business to a provider of emergency childcare.

The company, which has traded as emergencychildcare.co.uk and was set up by childcare and nanny recruitment agency Tinies, is to re-launch later this year as the Family Care Company. It provides back-up care for children and the elderly, including childminders and out-of-school clubs. The acquisition will add to this BUPA Childcare's search and selection facility on childcare and dependent care services for employees of 200 large organisations in the UK. Ben Black, director of the Family Care Company and one of the founders of Tinies, said, 'We are delighted to...

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