After December, the month of excess, January and February sees us flocking to the gym in droves and looking for ways for us and our families to be healthier in the coming year. As a Dad with a young son, it’s a huge priority of mine to ensure that he is eating healthily. To make [...]

Food is the fuel that powers our children. It makes them grow strong, gives them energy and plenty of opportunities to wind up their parents. If you struggle to get your children to eat healthily, don’t let frustration take over, try not to respond to bad eating habits. Your child will soon find there’s not [...]

Exercising regularly as a family and encouraging your children to be active is a really important part of keeping them healthy. Coupled with a healthy diet, it is the best way to prevent your child becoming overweight and suffering its many associated health problems, including diabetes and heart disease. But how much exercise do you [...]

Pushing to extend childcare vouchers to the self-employed has been on our agenda for several years now and support for the idea is really gaining traction. CVS – together with the other leading providers Edenred, Sodexo and Grass Roots – has been working for several months to put together a model that is workable, easy [...]

Following the well-publicised Astra Zeneca case that went through the European Court of Justice in July 2010, HMRC issued guidance on how VAT should be applied to salary sacrifice schemes. We covered the ruling and HMRC’s initial guidance in our blog post ‘ECJ Ruling does not apply to childcare vouchers’ on 11 August 2010. HMRC [...]