Advice for Parents & Carers
Information for working parents and carers on their employment rights, Tax Credits and in-work benefits, maternity and paternity leave, flexible working options and maternity discrimination. This includes a section especially for parents of disabled children.
read more on Benefits and Tax Credits Benefits and Tax Credits (7 categories)
An overview of benefits for working families.
read more on Changes to Your Employment Terms and Fire and Rehire Changes to Your Employment Terms and Fire and Rehire (3 articles)
Has your employer tried to change your working hours or location without your consent? Is your employer undertaking a fire and rehire programme. Here is our advice on how to deal with imposed changes.
read more on Childcare Support Childcare Support (14 articles)
Here are articles on accessing financial support for childcare.
read more on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Coronavirus (COVID-19) (8 articles)
FAQs about coronavirus and your employment rights, and what financial support might be available.
read more on Discrimination as a Parent/Carer Discrimination as a Parent/Carer (8 articles)
Understand what to do if you have been treated unfairly because you are pregnant, have a new baby, are caring for a dependant or exercised one of your statutory parental rights.
read more on Employment Rights Employment Rights (1 articles)
Information to help you understand your rights at work.Practitioners may also find the information on our Employment Tribunal pages useful.
read more on Employment Tribunals Employment Tribunals (2 articles)
Resources for practitioners who support working parents in bringing an employment tribunal claim.
read more on Flexible Working and Working Hours Flexible Working and Working Hours (10 articles)
Would you like to change your working hours or have more flexibility? Are you unable to make your hours work around childcare? We give our advice on your right to request flexible working and working hours.
Watch our flexible working webinar on YouTube.read more on Parents and carers of dependants with a disability Parents and carers of dependants with a disability (6 articles)
Information and resources for people who work or wish to work and have caring responsibilities for dependants with a disability.
read more on Pregnancy and Maternity Pregnancy and Maternity (1 articles)
Your rights during pregnancy and maternity leave, including returning to work and discrimination.
read more on Redundancy, Restructuring and TUPE transfer Redundancy, Restructuring and TUPE transfer (10 articles)
Are you facing redundancy? Is your employer restructuring the business? Have you been made redundant whilst on or shortly after maternity leave? Is your job being TUPE-transferred?
read more on Statutory Family Leave and Pay Statutory Family Leave and Pay (4 categories)
Understand your rights to leave and pay for fathers, non-birth partners, and those adopting or having a baby through surrogacy.
read more on Time Off for Parents and Carers Time Off for Parents and Carers (7 articles)
Information on rights to take Time off for Dependants, unpaid Parental Leave and Parental Bereavement Leave for parents and carers.
read more on Toolkit for parents Toolkit for parents (2 articles)
If you’re expecting a new child in your family, you probably have lots of questions about maternity leave and pay, benefits, paternity rights and rights to request flexible working. Our popular factsheets summarise the information you are most likely to need at this crucial time, as well as parents of older children.
