Past events
Here you can see all our past events.

Family Friendly Workplaces and the Employment Rights Act: What’s changing and how employers can prepare
Family Friendly Workplaces is hosting a practical, employer-focused webinar on upcoming changes linked to the Employment Rights Act, including developments relating to gender pay gap reporting.

Building Successful Employee Networks to Support Working Parents & Carers – Network Chairs Event
Join us for a face-to-face, interactive workshop (in London) to explore and learn best practice in building successful employee network groups to support working parents and carers within the workplace.

Roundtable event: Flexible Leave – Supporting Parents and Carers beyond parental leave
We recognise that maternity and partner leave are hugely important. However, they represent just one part of the support parents and carers need.

What Leading Employers Are Doing to Build Truly Family-Friendly Cultures – Roundtable
Don’t miss our first roundtable of the year, where we’ll unpack the key trends and insights from the Working Families Top Employers Benchmark 2025.

Family Friendly Workplaces Education Session
Join us for the next in the series of free webinars, to find out how the UK’s first Family-Friendly Workplace certification is shaping the future of work and what it could mean for your organisation.

Network Chairs – Pathways to Parenthood
Join us for a dedicated session where employer members will share how they’re supporting employees on their pathway to parenthood — including fertility journeys, adoption, surrogacy, and parental leave.

Barriers to Equal Parenting – webinar
Join Working Families and partner Wates Group, along with Parenting Out Loud and The Dad Shift, for a powerful conversation on how employers can play a leading role in removing the barriers to equal parenting.

Roundtable: Exploring the upcoming Employment Rights Bill
The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) represents the most significant overhaul of UK employment law in recent decades, with implications for every employer.

Family Friendly Workplaces – Education Event
Join us for a free webinar to find out how the UK’s first Family-Friendly Workplace certification is shaping the future of work and what it could mean for your organisation.

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.