Business secretary John Hutton said last week that flexible workingrights will be extended to parents with children under 16 years old fromnext April, once they have been in a job for six months. Under currentregulations only parents of children under six have the right to requestflexible working.
Flexible working arrangements include part-time work, compressed hoursor flexi-time.
Purnima Tanuku, chief executive of the National Day NurseriesAssociation, said, 'This way of working can have a real bonus for thenursery and encourage increased flexibility in return from staff.However, it can be a challenging way of working, and it is importantthat a nursery has a clear policy about flexible working and plans aheadas far as possible to maintain ratios.
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