Best Practice Awards

The finalists for the 2025 have been announced.

Now in their sixteenth year, the Best Practice Awards showcase and celebrate employers who are offering flexibility for all their people and going above and beyond in their support for parents and carers.

The finalists will be announced in May, and the winners will be announced in June 2025.

The 2025 finalists

Best for Mothers (sponsored by Umbrella HR)

• Pan Macmillan 
• Royal Air Force  
• Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield 

Best for Fathers

• Canada Life  
• Pan Macmillan  
• Royal Air Force 

Best for Carers & Eldercare

• Crown Prosecution Service  
• Places for People  
• Utility Warehouse  

Best Family Network (sponsored by BlckBx)

• BNP Paribas  
• Experian  
• Nationwide Building Society 

Best for All-Round Flexibility

• Hill Dickinson LLP  
• Ten2Two Limited  
• Yoto

Best Small Employer

• ACEVO  
• Niice  
• Ten2Two Limited

Best for Mental Health & Wellbeing (sponsored by enei)

• Better Society Capital
• E.ON UK
• Nationwide Building Society

Best for Supporting Different Pathways to Parenthood

• E.ON UK  
• Principality Building Society  
• The Salvation Army 

Family-Friendly Champion of the Year (sponsored by Arnold Clark)

• Achsah Nasser, Bank of England  
• Aileen McNiven, ILF Scotland  
• Louise Haffenden, URW