Britain Works
Britain Works is a programme of work which aims to inform conversations between both charities and UK employers to identify the solutions that will improve the working lives of the UK’s low and middle-income parents. A survey by Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) and Working Families has found that low and middle-income parents want to work,…
Flexible Jobs Index Scotland 2017
This is the first report of its kind in Scotland. It shows that demand for quality flexible jobs in Scotland massively outstrips supply with just one in eight jobs advertised as flexible. But more than a third of jobless Scots are looking for part-time or flexible work.
Family Friendly Working and Low Income Families – Full report
There is increasing recognition of the value of family friendly and flexible ways of working to employers, families and communities in Scotland.
2017 Modern Families Index full report
The 2017 Modern Families Index - the most comprehensive survey of working parents in the UK
Top Employers for Working Families Benchmark Report
The Working Families' Top Employers Benchmark measures the full range of flexible working and work-life balance practices used by Working Families' employer members, and how these are integrated into the organisation’s values, policies and culture.
Time to Rebalance – the results paper
Parents and carers play a crucial role in Scotland’s labour force. In the lead up to National Work Life Week 2016 Family Friendly Working Scotland asked over 600 parents in Scotland to tell us about their work life balance.
Fathers in the early years
The new shared parental leave scheme is amongst the latest additions to a growing inventory of work-related family friendly policies and flexible working arrangements, developed and introduced by the UK Government over the past two decades.
Rigid flexibility: the work of the Working Families Legal Advice Service in 2014
2,766 working parents and carers – 85 per cent of them women, and one in four a single parent – telephoned or emailed the Working Families legal advice helpline in 2014. The helpline team provides free advice on key work-life balance rights such as maternity and paternity leave and pay, and unpaid parental leave.
The Modern Families Index 2015
The Modern Families Index aims to capture an annual snapshot of how working families combine work and family life. Taking over 1000 working families across the UK, the Index asks parents to describe the arrangements that they use to navigate everyday working life with dependent children, and how they feel work and family life is shaped by this combination
Modern Families Index 2015 – Scotland
Working people across Scotland are struggling to find a way to balance their desire to prioritise a healthy, happy family life with the demands of the modern workplace.
Off Balance: parents of disabled children and paid work
This new survey of over 900 parents illustrates both the extent to which such parents value the opportunity to work – for both economic and other reasons – and the enormous challenge they face in combining their especially demanding caring responsibilities with paid work.
Top Employers for Working Families 2014 Benchmark Report
The headline findings report on the 2014 Top Employers for Working Families benchmark. The Working Families Benchmark continues, in 2014, to be the tool of choice for organisations that want to understand and measure the progress and success of their flexible, high performance working initiatives, policies and practices.
