• Royal Air Force – Joint Winner 2018, Best Public Sector Employer

  Retaining talented personnel is key for the Royal Air Force. The organization are constantly looking at new and innovative ways of being an employer of choice.   Key Points 26 weeks’ full pay for maternity, adoption and Shared Parental Leave  200 personnel taken up SPL since its introduction  96.3% of servicewomen return after a period of…

• University of the West of Scotland – 2018 Scottish Top Employers

  University of the West of Scotland (UWS) wants employees to feel valued and believes that family friendly working gets the best out of people.

• Loop Customer Management, Commended 2012, Best for Mothers Award

  Loop Customer Management provides billing & collection and customer services for Yorkshire Water. They employ 578 people, 70 per cent of whom are women. Because they have a large number of female workers, it is vital that they are able to get maternity policies right to both ensure that they manage the maternity process well,…

• KPMG LLP, Finalist 2012, Best for Mothers Award

  KPMG is a professional services firm employing more than 12,000 people in the UK. Driven by a desire to retain their female employees, and increase the number of women at senior levels of management, KPMG has a comprehensive range of support for working mothers. Well-paid maternity leave is complemented on return to work with a…

• Deloitte, Winner 2012, Best for Mothers Award

  Deloitte is a professional services firm employing nearly 13,000 people in the UK. Over the last year they have specifically introduced and enhanced their offering for mothers, partly to retain existing talent, but also as a way of increasing the number of women who occupy senior positions with the organisation. By supporting mothers through their…

• Citi, Commended 2012, The Best for Mothers Award

  Citi is a large global banking group, employing more than 8,500 people in the UK. The bank has, for the last decade, aimed to provide a high level of maternity support: policy to safeguard maternity leavers’ annual compensation reviews, back-up emergency childcare, childcare vouchers, an on-site BUPA health centre, a tailored Employee Assistance Programme, and…

• Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Finalist 2012, Best for Mothers Award

  Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust employs over 3,000 people, of whom 85 percent are women. They were keen to maximise their maternity returner rate, especially for hard-to-fill clinical posts. To do this they developed a holistic approach to managing maternity which starts when a woman informs her manager that she is pregnant. After this,…

• West Mercia Police, Commended 2011, The Best for Mothers Award

  Using a buddying system through their maternity network, West Mercia Police support mothers through pregnancy and return to work and beyond. Buddies are trained volunteers, who offer support and guidance on a range of issues around family issues. They can also offer help and support to partners if so required. The buddying scheme and Maternity…

• Deutsche Bank, Winner 2011, the Best for Mothers Award

  Having introduced a maternity coaching programme in 2008, Deutsche Bank has seen this benefit grow in popularity year on year. The coaching is not only offered to pregnant women, but also to all managers of women going on maternity leave. For women, the coaching program is designed to support a successful transition from and back…

• The Children’s Trust, Finalist 2011, The Best for Mothers Award

  There is a subsidised nursery on site for staff which operates longer hours to support staff with doing shift work. Additionally, the Trust subsidises local summer camps for staff with school age children up to 12 years old. An onsite occupational nurse will work with managers to support pregnant staff and meet regularly with them…

• Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Finalist 2011, The Best for Mothers Award

  The Trust has recently overhauled its maternity provisions to make it easier for women to manage their pregnancy, leave and return. As well as producing a completely new maternity guide for mothers which covers antenatal and postnatal issues, all women going on maternity leave are given a designated HR contact with whom they can liaise…

• AB World Foods, Finalist 2017, Best Large Private Sector Employer

  Enhanced and competitive family-related benefits. ‘Summer Hours’ scheme enables employees to finish early on a Friday – 62 per cent take up. New flexible working trial: Employees in the commercial departments now have the flexibility to be able to work from home on a Monday and Friday and benefit from core office hours of 10am-4pm…