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  • 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…

  • Everything Everywhere, Finalist 2011, The Best for Mothers Award

    Taking as a starting point their customer demographic, Everything Everywhere has put in place a programme to encourage working mothers to take a more prominent role in the companies customer facing areas. As well as putting into place a wide range of flexible working policies, they have also rearranged work shifts so that mothers with…

  • 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…

  • PageGroup, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    Pre/post Maternity coaching, mentoring for new mothers and parenting seminars across a range of topics, chosen by our parents Launched Dynamic Working programme to give all employees flexibility and choice. Creation of a portal for work and family with access to free emergency back-up childcare, webinars, information and expert advice. Series of networking groups and…

  • JP Morgan, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    Senior steering committee set up to review the maternity support offered and how it can be strengthened. Maternity buddy programme expanded, sitting alongside coaching and line manager training. Quarterly returner lunches for those back from leave, plus re-entry programme for women out of the workforce for two or more years – 100 per cent of…

  • Barclays, Finalist 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    To increase retention, Barclays introduced a programme of support from pre-post maternity, including workshops, networking, briefing packs for employees and managers, KIT sessions. A mentoring tool was developed as a platform for career development discussions and dedicated portal Woman@Barclays created to bring together support resources. Dynamic (flexible) working campaign to reduce discrimination by promoting flexibility…

  • Dulas, Winner 2017, The Deloitte Best for all stages of Motherhood Award

    100 per cent retention rate for mothers five years after the birth of their first child All requests for flexibility approved Mothers make up two-thirds of the senior management team Engineering firm Dulas is bucking the trend in STEMM (science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics) businesses, with its extremely successful retention strategies for new mothers…