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Best Practice Awards

Outstanding employers and family-friendly champions
have been celebrated today as we announced the
winners of the 2025 Best Practice Awards.  

Find out our winners

  • Contact us for advice

    Use our contact form for free legal advice on family and carer-related employment rights and in-work benefits.

  • Family Friendly Workplaces – Education Event

    Join us for a free webinar to find out how the UK’s first Family-Friendly Workplace certification is shaping the future of work and what it could mean for your organisation. 

  • Help during the summer holidays

    The summer holidays can be a source of stress and anxiety for many families whose work situation doesn’t allow any flexibility to manage childcare and who can’t afford additional childcare costs.

  • Six Weeks for Dads: New Report Calls for Overhaul of UK Paternity Leave Offer 

    A new report from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, supported by Working Families and the Fatherhood Institute, calls on the UK government to introduce six weeks of well-paid leave for fathers in their baby’s first year, arguing the move would promote gender equality, support working families and boost economic growth. 

  • Our Legal Advice Service – data deep dive

    Over the years, we’ve supported thousands of parents and carers in times of crisis—from everyday struggles to the pandemic—offering trusted advice when all other options felt exhausted. In 2023, we began tracking the impact of our support more closely. The results confirmed what we believed: our advice truly makes a difference.

  • Family Friendly Workplace Certification

    Family Friendly Workplaces™ is a global movement to transform the future of work through family-friendly policies that support wellbeing, inclusion, and gender equality.

  • Working Families Index

    The Working Families Index is the most comprehensive study of the experience of work and family life in the UK.

  • Working Families Index 2025 – Employer Briefing

    In this briefing we highlight the key findings of the 2025 Working Families Index alongside actions that can be introduced in your workplace to empower employees to meet their caring and work responsibilities and fulfil their potential within your organisation.

  • Are you happy to talk flexible working?

    Working Families, with the support of the Government’s Flexible Working Taskforce, have developed Happy To Talk Flexible Working to support employers on their journey to designing more flexible roles.

Latest news & events

  • Family Friendly Workplaces – Education Event

    Join us for a free webinar to find out how the UK’s first Family-Friendly Workplace certification is shaping the future of work and what it could mean for your organisation. 

  • Best Practice Awards 2025 – celebratory event

    Join us, as we announce the winners of Working Families Best Practice Awards 2025, at a special celebration in London

  • Network Chairs Event – Supporting Returners

    This session, designed for Network Chairs or people leads from organisations of all sizes, will focus on how employers can better support employees coming back from family-related leave—whether that’s parental leave, carers leave, or more specialist situations like fertility treatment or pregnancy loss.

More news and events

Our members

Our employer members are committed to flexible and family-friendly business practices.

See a full list of our members.