Healthcare staff are receiving leaflets about childcare services with their payslips, since Eastbourne and County Healthcare Trust became the first employer in East Sussex to link up with Kites Childcare Information Service. Kites has also provided leaflets for the maternity packs the Trust issues to all women taking maternity leave as part of a programme to encourage mothers to return to work. Trust head of personnel Ian Beattie said, 'We know how difficult it is for working parents to juggle their parenting responsibilities with job demands and that's why we are so pleased to be Kites' first corporate client. We are particularly impressed that all childcare providers from childminders to nurseries and after-school-clubs are vetted.'
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