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Management Focus - A work-play space

An innovative new setting is to offer parents a place to work and their children a place for care at the same time, says Karen Faux.

A four-storey, end-of-terrace Regency house in the centre of Brighton is undergoing refurbishment in preparation for its launch as a childcare service with a difference. In addition to providing a nursery staffed for up to 18 children, the premises will offer a co-working space with internet and computer facilities, private meeting rooms and IT support.

Director Elizabeth Moody-Stuart says that her new business, Officecreche, is aimed at parents with children up to the age of five, who may be freelance or working unpredictable hours. Alternatively, they may be mothers who want a few hours to themselves in the first few months after their child's birth before going back to a full-time job, or mature student parents who have changeable timetables.

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