The retailer, which has around 500 full-time staff and 2,000 part-time employees, is set to follow the likes of Bonmarche, Jack Wills and Karen Millen, which have gone bust in recent months. The global Mothercare group said it has undertaken a review of the UK business and found that it is "not capable of returning to a level of structural profitability". It said the business is therefore unable to satisfy the cash needs of the UK arm and is therefore filing the notice as part of the restructuring and refinancing process. Mothercare added that the listed group remains profitable despite the problems facing its UK division. In the UK, Mothercare had already closed 55 stores over the past year in a desperate bid to keep the business afloat. In July, it said that it was making progress through its Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) restructuring plan but saw UK profit margin improve slower than forecast due to the difficult retail backdrop.