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  • Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield – Winner 2018, UBS Best for Fathers Network Award

    Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield offers fathers many forms of support to help them find the right balance between work and family life including enhanced paternity leave, Shared Parental Leave, workshops for fathers and a family buddy system.  Key Points Four weeks Paternity Leave on full pay taken by all relevant staff, which can also be taken in separate blocks.…

  • SeAp, Finalist 2017, Best Third Sector Employer Award

    Across the organisation, 85 per cent of staff work flexibly and have access to technology to assist them. Jobs are advertised as open to flexibility. Managers are trained on dealing with remote working and preventing staff becoming isolated, using video calling to keep in touch. Line managers given autonomy to offer individuals day to day…

  • Berwin Leighton Paisner, Finalist 2017, Best Large Private Sector Employer Award

    Recruitment advertising promotes the firm’s increasing levels of flexibility. Senior management encourage informal flexible working and 25 per cent of the workforce have formal flexibility agreements. Training offered for managing remote workers, networks launched to support parents, family day introduced and series of talks provided on a range of family issues. Shared parental leave enhanced…

  • Barclays, Finalist 2017, The Cityparents Best for all stages of Fatherhood Award

    So far 162 parents have taken shared parental leave at Barclays – 95 per cent of them fathers. There are also high levels of paid paternity leave take-up. Dedicated coaching sessions and webinars are run to support fathers and of 3,085 members of the bank’s family network, 42 per cent are men. Fathers are supported…

  • Lloyds Banking Group, Winner 2017, Best Large Private Sector Employer

    Enhancements offered for all family leave Proactive support for flexibility in recruitment processes Launched a colleague network for parents and carers Lloyds Banking Group puts flexible work at the heart of its business, focusing on agile workers, parents and carers. Agile working is key to the Group’s strategy. Over a third of employees work in…

  • Imperial College London, Winner 2017, The Cityparents Best for all stages of Fatherhood Award

    Case studies and high-level role models demonstrate support for fathers Post-leave academic fellowship extended to fathers Shared parental leave pay enhanced to match maternity pay Imperial is enacting cultural change in a traditionally male-dominated academic institution. Initiatives aim to break down traditional assumptions around parenthood and ensure fathers can take an equal role. At Imperial…

  • Santander, Finalist 2016, The Centrica Best for Modern Families Award

    Key features Santander has introduced an early extension of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) to grandparents, a scheme that is widely believed to be the first of its kind in the UK. Grandparents will now receive the same benefits as women on maternity leave and partners taking SPL, with 16 weeks of full pay provided Santander…