Working Families

Working Families is a charity which gives advice to working parents, carers, and those looking after disabled children.

We provide free advice on family and carer-related employment rights and in-work benefits. Before contacting us, you may first want to check if you can find the answer to your query on our advice pages. We advise for instance on:

• Pregnancy and maternity
  
• COVID-19 and employment
• Discrimination as a parent/carer
• Adoption, paternity, shared Parental Leave
• Flexible Working and imposed change
• Emergency, parental and parental bereavement leave
• In-work benefits and tax credits
• Free childcare and help with childcare costs

Use our online contact advice form.

Waving not Drowning Project

Waving not Drowning is a project aimed at supporting working parents of disabled children and adults. It focuses on issues around combining paid work and parenting.