Latest news & events

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  Open letter to Liz Kendall MP

  Working Families’ response to the proposed reforms to Personal Independence Payment (PIP) and the Work Capability Assessment (WCA).

  19 Mar 2025

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  Family-friendly certification programme launches in the UK 

  From today, employers in the UK can be a part of a pioneering certification programme that will shape family-friendly workplaces of the future.  

  11 Mar 2025

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  ‘Time to grieve’: 60% agree employers should offer paid bereavement leave for a pre-24 week pregnancy loss

  E.ON and Working Families are joining calls for improved pregnancy loss support to be offered by employers to employees experiencing pregnancy loss.

  29 Jan 2025

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  Webinar – Beyond Hybrid: Flexible Job Design in Recruitment

  In this webinar, we’ll explore how flexible job design can be applied across a variety of roles, whether it’s office or site-based work.

  22nd May 2025 | 12pm to 1pm

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  Family Friendly Workplaces UK Certification Launch

  Join us for a webinar as we officially launch the UK’s first Family-Friendly Workplace certification – an exciting new initiative that will build family-friendly workplaces of the future and contribute to global social change. 

  31st March 2025 | 11am to 12pm

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  Network Chairs – Best practice support for working fathers/co-parents and why it matters

  This network chair session, chaired by Working Families Relationship Manager Lottie Driver, will focus on how change can be accelerated in support for fathers and co-parents. We are delighted to be joined by Alex Lloyd Hunter from The Dad Shift, a group of men, dads and co-parents campaigning for better paternity leave in the UK. We’ll explore why substantial, affordable and equal paternity leave is so important, and hear from them on the inspiring work they’re doing to challenge the status quo of statutory paternity leave here in the UK. 

  6th February 2025 | 12pm to 1pm