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  • The future of childcare support for working parents

    Produced by Working Families and the Childcare Voucher Providers Association, this report calls on the government to keep childcare vouchers open to parents alongside the new Tax Free Childcare scheme. The report finds: Childcare vouchers are a widely-used benefit that is popular with parents and employers alike Many lower earners will lose out on money under…

  • Benchmark Report 2016

    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.

  • Legal Advice Service 2015

    Striking a balance: the work of the Legal Advice Service in 2015

    Our Legal Advice Service provides support to working parents and carers on key employment rights including maternity and paternity leave and pay, negotiating a flexible working pattern, and using unpaid leave to deal with family commitments. Crucially, staff on the advice line coach callers on how to achieve the best solution for them and their…

  • Working Families Report

    Shared parental leave: the perspective from employers

    Shared parental leave is a new right allowing parents to combine work and care in the first year with their child in a new way.We surveyed employers for this report to get a feel for how the new policy is working. We found that shared parental leave has a lot of support and that many organisations are taking steps to help make it a success. Its still early days for this new type of leave but seven out of ten employers told us they expect take-up to rise in the future.