July 1, 2010

Portland, OR (June 30, 2010) – A new relationship announced today between Portland-based  CCLC^® and London-based My Family Care will allow two major child care providers to share best practices on maintaining and strengthening relationships with existing clients, as well as cultivating and evaluating potential business initiatives – on both sides of the Atlantic.

CCLC is a nationwide child care provider dedicated to high-quality employer-sponsored early childhood care and education, while My Family Care provides solutions that allow employees in the U.K. to manage their family care responsibilities with their work commitments.

“We are thrilled to build an international relationship with a company that shares many of the same values and commitments as we do at CCLC,” said Fran Durekas, founder and chief development officer for CCLC. “Our continued focus is and always will be providing high-quality early childhood education and customized offerings for our clients and their employees – whether it’s in the U.S. or abroad. Our alliance with My Family Care aligns perfectly with this mission and will enhance the scope of service we can provide to clients to address their employee’s work life needs.”

“In today's world there is no simple choice between work and family.  With more dual career couples, more employees have care commitments, and supportive family services are critical to a company’s bottom line.  If employers want to ensure a productive staff – to recruit, retain, engage them and address absenteeism head on – they need to help employees balance childcare with their work responsibilities,” said Ben Black, founder of My Family Care.

In addition to common business goals shared by CCLC and My Family Care, the alliance also stems from an existing crossover between the two organizations. Knowledge Universe^®, the parent company of CCLC, also owns Busy Bees, U.K.’s largest child care organization providing care and education to children birth to five years of age. My Family Care works regularly with Busy Bees to offer clients back-up child care in the U.K.

About CCLC^®

CCLC is a national child care provider dedicated to developing unique and effective employer-sponsored child care programs. Founded in 1992, CCLC currently operates more than 100 employer-sponsored child development centers. Recognized for its unique approach, CCLC has been honored by Working Mother’s inaugural Best Companies for Hourly Workers awards and named to the prestigious Center for Companies That Care Honor Roll for the past two years. In 2009, CCLC also received the Moving Into the Future Award from The Conference Board's Work Life Leadership Council for its Eco-Healthy Child Care initiative. CCLC offers high-quality child care programs for children ages six weeks to 12 years through on-site or near-site child development centers, before and after school programs, summer camps and specialized dependent care programs such as priority access and back-up child care. CCLC has extensive experience providing quality, convenient and affordable child care programs for working families, creating professional work environments for early childhood educators and helping our client realize their goals for recruitment, retention and work-life benefits. For more information visit www.cclc.com, and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ConnectCCLC.

About My Family Care

My Family Care provides solutions that allow employees to manage their family care responsibilities with their work commitments. Services include Emergency childcare, Emergency homecare (for elders), Out of school care (for school holidays), Childcare consultancy, Maternity coaching.  My Family Care not only owns the UK’s largest nanny agency chain, Tinies, but has also developed the largest network of childcare providers in the UK.  The company was named the 2007 Daily Telegraph’s CCP Trailblazers Young Company of the Year.  Clients include P&G, Shell, Barclays, GSK, and the Met Police.  Its ground breaking emergency childcare service is used by over 250,000 working families. 

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