Family Friendly Awards and programme
National Work from Home Day - Friday 18 May
Organised as part of Work Wise Week 2012, employers are being encouraged to offer their staff a day to work from home. The aim of the week is to "promote modern, smarter working practices in all its forms (flexible, remote, mobile and working from home) for both employers and employees in all sectors of UK industry."
This resonates with the Family Friendly programme and we're interested to hear your experience of working from home, and whether it makes for a more Family Friendly employer. Is it positively encouraged or frowned on where you work? Is your company set up for home working? Or is it more of a pain than it's worth and does it mean that you (or your partner) end up working all of the time?
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Events
We had fantastic HR workshop hosted by Talk Talk in London. Our next event will be hosted soon by Squire Sanders Hammond in Leeds when we'll be having a similar HR workshop. We'll be showcasing what we've learned from our first year of working with companies who've joined Family Friendly, and discussing new opportunities to bring in even more family friendly practices.
Family Friendly WiFi
Do you know what your child can access when they use public WiFi? We're calling on companies to be open about the status of their public WiFi and sign up to commit to applying appropriate filters in our new Family Friendly WiFi programme.
Nominate for 2012
Do you know a company that goes the extra mile to make family life easier? It could be your employer, or a company you use (or even own!). Ensure family-friendly companies get the recognition they deserve by nominating them now.
Who's in the Family Friendly hall of fame?
Read all about our members and the 2011 award holders. We'll be adding to the list as new members join the scheme, so keep watching to see who is trying to make life easier for families.
How we decided who won an award
Find out what companies who are Family Friendly Programme members had to do to qualify for an award, and what we were looking for when we awarded bronze, silver or gold.
Making Britain more Family Friendly
We've been asking our members to tell us what they've been doing as a result of their membership. Find out here what BAA and others had to say about Family Friendly.
Programme aims
Find out what our Family Friendly programme is setting out to do, as we strive to make Britain one of the best places in Europe to raise a family.
Policies and pledges
Find out what other organisations are saying about family-friendly policies, and what the Coalition government has pledged to do.