Best Practice Awards
Outstanding employers and family-friendly champions
have been celebrated today as we announced the
winners of the 2025 Best Practice Awards.
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New research uncovers the economic and social benefits of improving paternity leave
Parliamentarians from across the parties came together to hear new research from academics that have been assessing the cost benefits of improved statutory paternity leave and the need for better statutory provision for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs).
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.
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.
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
New research uncovers the economic and social benefits of improving paternity leave
Parliamentarians from across the parties came together to hear new research from academics that have been assessing the cost benefits of improved statutory paternity leave and the need for better statutory provision for small and medium sized businesses (SMEs).
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.
National Charity for Working Parents Recognise UK’s Top Family Friendly Employers
Outstanding employers and family-friendly champions have been celebrated today as we announced the winners of the 2025 Best Practice Awards.
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.
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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
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