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The Princess of Wales said employers have an important role to play in enabling parents to balance a successful work life with a fulfilling family life for their children. This week, Kate urged business leaders to prioritize workplace wellness to support family life when she launched her Early Childhood Task Force. Writing in FT Weekend, the future Queen said that investing in the early years is "a down payment for our collective future".
Kate hopes that the global companies that have joined her task force will be the catalyst for change and encourage companies across the country to train and support staff to maintain their social and emotional well-being, helping them in their work and life. familiar.
In her article for the FT, the mother of three said: “Our resilience, our flexibility, our ability to manage stress and stay motivated in the face of challenges are shaped by the foundations we build in early childhood.
“However, not enough emphasis is placed on social and emotional development or creating environments that foster these skills, throughout childhood and beyond.
"The well-being of the parents is the most important factor in determining the well-being of a child, and we know that becoming a parent puts additional pressure on mental health.
“Almost 75% of people find raising children under the age of five stressful.
“We also know that parents make up a large part of the UK workforce – 76% of mothers and 92% of fathers with children work.
“We must recognize the challenge many of these parents and other caregivers face in balancing a successful work life with a satisfying home life during their children's formative years.
"Employers have an important role to play in making this possible."
Kate said she thought there were two things to do.
“The first is to prioritize creating work environments that provide the support people need to cultivate and maintain their own social and emotional well-being.
"The second is a more focused approach on the social and emotional development of our youngest children," she said.
Wrapping up her post, the princess said: "Then, over the next few months, the task force will consider whether to put the early years at the center of delivering the 'social' element."
"While individual companies are doing a great job, by being better coordinated between business and commerce, our impact could be enormous.
“As the world becomes increasingly complex, we must invest in early childhood now, as a down payment on our collective future.
"If business and business embrace this important issue, including how better early childhood will affect their own organizations both now and in the long term, we can and will transform the lives of generations to come."
Earlier this week, Kate joined the inaugural meeting of the task force, whose members include Unilever, Ikea, NatWest and Lego, an initiative that follows the launch of her Shaping Us project, described as her "life's work." " and aimed at raising the level of development profile of young people in the early years.
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