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Faced with recruitment challenges, one chain found providing staff with subsidised housing benefited the company and its workers. Annette Rawstrone reports Teddies Nurseries has got the home front covered as the cost of living in London goes through the roof. The nursery chain provides subsidised housing to some of its employees to help make it more feasible for them to work and live in the expensive capital.

Teddies Nurseries has got the home front covered as the cost of living in London goes through the roof. The nursery chain provides subsidised housing to some of its employees to help make it more feasible for them to work and live in the expensive capital.

The initiative was born around three years ago as the chain found the recruitment climate increasingly challenging, especially when it came to filling vacancies in its London nurseries. Many of Teddies' 28 nurseries are located in affluent areas where house prices are typically out of nursery nurses' reach and even renting can prove too expensive.

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