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Supporting employees with caring responsibilities – FREE mini toolkit for Carers Week 2025
Working Families is delighted to partner with World’s Happiest Workplaces, powered by WorkL to share this free download, packed with best practice ideas for supporting employees with caring responsibilities.
Caring for Carers: the Phoenix Group approach
Phoenix Group is thinking big when it comes to supporting carers. Not only do they have award-winning policies* and an inclusive culture in place that has created a psychologically safe space for carers, their pioneering ‘Caring for Carers’ initiative has the potential to make an impact way beyond their own organisation.
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.
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Flexible and Family-Friendly Working reforms
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Flexible and Family Friendly Working has been reformed at the House of Commons.
Coalition of Charities and Academics calls for overhaul of UK parental leave system in support of Government review
A group of charities, academics and other rights organisations and campaign groups have come together to call for a comprehensive review of parental leave, including the maternity, paternity and shared parental leave and pay framework.
Finalists Announced for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2025
Working Families has revealed the shortlist for its 2025 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working practices are leading the way in flexible and employee-friendly workplaces.
Neonatal Care Leave
Working Families are delighted to see that the government has confirmed that parents who have a baby in neonatal care will be entitled to additional time off as a day one right from 6th April 2025.
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
Setting Global Standards of Family-Friendly Working
This week, business leaders gathered at Australia House to explore the future of family-friendly policy and how employers can drive meaningful change on a global scale.
A united vision: APPG meeting brings advocates together to achieve a better deal for new parents
Voices from across the business and charity sectors joined parliamentarians to champion better parental leave earlier this week. Co-chaired by Sarah Russell MP and Baroness Penn, it was the first informal meeting of the reformed All-Party Parliamentary Group for Flexible and Family-Friendly Working, and brought together insights from employers, campaigners and researchers.
Parents Cut Leave Short as UK Parental Leave System Fails New Families
The UK’s parental leave system is failing new families, with financial pressures and patchy entitlements leaving parents unable to take the time they need to care for their newborns.
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.
Roundtable event: Caring across generations – How can employers create a cross-generational culture of support to parents and carers?
Many employers are grappling with meeting the needs of a diverse workforce that could include parents, sandwich carers, grandparents, and kinship carers, each with their own set of skills, responsibilities, hopes and expectations.
Our members
Our employer members are committed to flexible and family-friendly business practices.
See a full list of our members.
A&O Shearman
Audit Wales
Aviva
Bank of England
BNP Paribas
bp
Brodies LLP
Browne Jacobson
Brunel University
Canada Life
British International Investment
Citigroup
Clyde & Co LLP
Cranfield University
Crown Prosecution Service
DAC Beachcroft
Dentsu UK&I
Drax Group
DWF
E.ON
Equans
EY
Financial Ombudsman Service
Freeths
Gowling WLG
Grant Thornton LLP
Harper Macleod LLP
Hill Dickinson LLP
Imperial College London
Independent Living Fund Scotland
Kings College London
Laing O’Rourke
Lendlease
Linklaters
Lloyds Banking Group
LSE
LUC
Markel International
Mayer Brown
MBDA Systems
Mishcon de Reya LLP
Mott MacDonald
MUFG
Nationwide
NELFT (North East London NHS Foundation Trust)
Norton Rose Fulbright
Phoenix Group
Pinsent Masons
Rolls Royce
Royal Bank of Canada
RSPCA
Schroders
SF Recruitment
Sheffield Hallam University
Southdown Housing
Squire Patton Boggs
TLT LLP
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
University of Manchester
Wellcome Trust
Welsh Parliament (Senedd)
Yorkshire Building Society