The company, which has traded as emergencychildcare.co.uk and was set upby childcare and nanny recruitment agency Tinies, is to re-launch laterthis year as the Family Care Company. It provides back-up care forchildren and the elderly, including childminders and out-of-schoolclubs. The acquisition will add to this BUPA Childcare's search andselection facility on childcare and dependent care services foremployees of 200 large organisations in the UK.
Ben Black, director of the Family Care Company and one of the foundersof Tinies, said, 'We are delighted to put the two businesses together.The BUPA Childcare team have a wealth of experience.
'There is a commercial rationale for companies to provide a fantasticback-up model that allows all care needs to be taken care of. We have600 nurseries, 2,000 childminders and back-up nannies through Tinies.With the Family Care Company, whatever an employee needs for emergencyand permanent care services, we will be able to meet them.'
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