Parents and carers: help us #flextheUK.
Take our survey to let us know how you've balanced work and care during COVID-19, and your hopes for what work will look like in a post-COVID future. Your responses will be used to support our work with the government and employers to make flexible working the norm.
Winners Announced: Best Practice Awards
Find out about the employers who are leading the way in flexible and family-friendly workplaces.
Read moreBack to school: What employers should be thinking about
Our aim as a charity is to always keep parents in work, but this simply hasn’t been practically possible for all families in the current situation. So when the Government heeded our call for employers to be able to put their people on furlough for childcare reasons, this was a huge relief. As we perhaps move to a new phase of tackling the pandemic, what should employers be considering for their working parents?
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Weathering the Storm
The COVID-19 pandemic and working parents
New report exploring the issues still facing the working parents getting in touch with us about COVID-19, and simple ways the government and UK employers could go further to support them to stay in work and help ensure they don’t lose out financially.
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Learning from Lockdown: Virtual Roundtable for UK Employers
In this virtual roundtable we will reflect on what has and hasn’t worked for UK employers/employees over the last few months, sharing the learning and thus equipping us to [...]
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Learning from Lockdown: Virtual Roundtable for UK Employers
How are UK employers ensuring that homeworking becomes a sustainable & healthy way of working, once the COVID-19 crisis has passed?
Learning from Lockdown: Virtual Roundtable for Employers in Scotland
How are employers in Scotland ensuring that homeworking becomes a sustainable & healthy way of working, once the COVID-19 crisis has passed? About this Event Register now [...]
A New Chapter: Working Families in Scotland
We’d like to give an update on the future of Family Friendly Working Scotland (FFWS). Six years ago, Working Families established FFWS to create and support working culture [...]
Finalists Revealed for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2020
Work-life balance charity Working Families has announced the shortlist for its 2020 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working [...]
New report: Working parents are losing out due to COVID-19
A report from charity Working Families calls for the government and employers to go further in supporting working parents during the pandemic.
Working Families’ Statement on COVID-19 School Closures
Many working parents and carers with young children are already working from home, as recommended by the Government. Now that schools are closed, they find themselves needing [...]
Family friendly rights: what’s coming in 2020?
Keep up-to-date with family friendly rights: what’s coming in 2020. This course flags up cases and other developments which you need to know, what the main changes are and [...]
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DWF
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Sky
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Barclays
MBDA Systems
Ministry of Justice
Freeths
Gowling WLG
Santander
Surrey Police
Drax Group
Dentsu Aegis Network
Schroders
Lloyd's
BNP Paribas
Royal College of Nursing
Norton Rose Fulbright
Financial Ombudsman Service
Federated Hermes
CDC Group
MUFG
De Montfort University
Imperial College London
University of Portsmouth
DAS Group
Lloyds Banking Group
Wellcome Trust
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
London Legacy Development Corporation
Anglo American
QBE
Superdrug
Royal Bank of Scotland
Independent Living Fund Scotland
Linklaters
University of Manchester
Simmons & Simmons
Verizon Media
United Insurance Brokers
Deloitte
Grant Thornton
Northern Trust
Experian
BLM
Brunel University
Mott MacDonald
London Luton Airport
Hill Dickinson LLP
Unum
Harper Macleod LLP
Cambridge University Press
Sheffield Hallam University
Cranfield University
Brodies LLP