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Children take over the boardroom on strike day

A childcare voucher company is holding a 'bring your child to work day' for parents left in the lurch without childcare because of today's strike.

Sodexo Motivation Solutions has turned its boardroom at the head office in Camberley into a play area for the day, complete with entertainers and magicians.

Around 70 employees are at the office and around a dozen children aged four to 14 are taking part.

Managing director Iain McMath told Nursery World, ‘The strike is a big issue for a number of our employees and some weren’t able to get their children into local nurseries, so we came up with this solution.’

‘It’s about supporting our workforce.’

Children have been playing ‘princess and the pirate’, putting on a play about what they would like to do when they grow up, what they would do if they ran the country and what their parents do at work.

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