Past events
Here you can see all our past events.
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.
Webinar – Beyond Hybrid: Weaving flex into job design and the recruitment process
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.
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.
How women’s employee networks support women in the workplace – Network Chair event
The theme for International Women's Day 2025 is 'Accelerate Action' and during our upcoming members-only Network Chair event, chaired by Working Families Relationship Manager, Donna Patterson, we will explore how women's employee networks support women in the workplace and make change happen.
Roundtable: Neonatal Care – exploring the new bill
Every year, around 60,000 babies are born at less than 37 weeks, with many requiring specialist, neonatal care. With the new neonatal bill arriving in April 2025 we are delighted to be joined by Kyle Green, Parliamentary and Stakeholder Manager here at Working Families, who will provide an update about this new piece of legislation.
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.
Roundtable: Wellbeing in the Workplace Workshop
Kick off the new year with a session dedicated to wellbeing. At this members-only roundtable session chaired by our Relationship Manager, Diana Gilmore, we’ll be joined by the Centre for Emotional Health to discuss how to create a healthy workplace culture.
Network Chairs – Identifying and supporting working carers
Any of us can become a carer at any point, regardless of our gender, age or social status. We probably have a good understanding of who in our teams is a parent, but would you know who in your team is a carer? Despite one in seven people in the workplace in the UK juggling…