Daycare Program
[Infants, Toddlers and Senior Kids]
[3m-18m, 19m-6yrs, 6yrs-12yrs]
The Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Act, 2017 received the assent of President of India in March 2017. The related Maternity Benefit Bill was passed by both houses of the parliament in the same month. Besides revising paid maternity leave to 26 weeks from 12 weeks earlier, the new law mandates that companies with more than 50 employees provide a Daycare or Crèche facility within a prescribed distance from the workplace.
What does this mean for the HR department?
The onus is on HR to ensure that employees have a completely worry free Daycare experience, not only in the interest of compliance, but to improve employee engagement and productivity. It's a challenge for most companies to implement this in-house, considering the expertise and resources required within a short duration.
A practical approach then would be to partner with a reputed Childcare Provider. That's where Little Sparks Global comes in. Our aim is to bring mothers back to the workplace by providing their children a safe, caring environment, conducive to learning. We achieve this through our premium childcare brands - Little Sparks Global : Self Learning Centre
Little Sparks Global (SLG) -- A pioneer in the area of Corporate Childcare with an experience of more than 16 years in engaging and caring for young children. From ideating, designing, executing and operating chain of onsite Corporate Daycare Centres - working with organisations to construct the right Childcare solutions for their employees.
Little Sparks Global : Preschool is the retail arm of the Little Sparks Global, focusing on the Preschool Segment of Business, maintaining an uncompromising focus on quality as we god is in the details.
What corporate solutions do we provide?
How does it work?
- An exclusive facility set up on or near premises of the corporate
- Fit out and setup costs borne by corporate
- Little Sparks Global manages the end to end setup and operations
- Swift execution of plan as space & infrastructure support already exist
- Holidays and timings of the Centre are mapped to the Corporate's need
Advantages
- Easy access for employees
- Based on capacity utilization, actual running costs can be scaled up or down
- Corporate has complete control on design, access & quality of the center
How does it work?
- Little Sparks Global sets up a near site facility for the corporate with an agreed upon number of seats blocked for the partner, who is the anchor client
- Corporate & LSG have joint control on design, access & quality
- Remaining seats are open for other corporate or retail admissions
- LSG manages the operations completely
Advantages
- The fit out and set up cost is borne by LSG. No upfront CAPEX for corporate
- Easy access for employees
- Can be scaled up pan India
- The onus is on LSG to make it a commercially viable project
How does it work?
- Corporate partner blocks required number of seats across LSG locations, by paying the admission fee and monthly tuition fee for these seats.
- Corporate employees across cities can then choose a convenient LSG location close to work or home
- LSG takes care of the setup, hiring and training costs.
Advantages
- Can be implemented with immediate effect
- No CAPEX obligations on Corporate
- Testing ground for setting up an onsite center (in terms of employee utilization & perceived benefit)
- Can be scaled up pan India if the number of employees in a single location is less than 300