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Rethinking 'Free Childcare': A Step Towards Equality for Working Parents
Recently, the UK Government’s has made a promise to working parents:
By September 2025, working parents will be able to claim 30 hours of free childcare a week, over 38 weeks of the year, all the way through from nine months up to their child starting school.
The promise of 'free childcare' has sparked both hope and skepticism for working parents. We at WOMBA, believe that while the intention behind the pledge is noble, it risks exacerbating existing inequalities rather than alleviating them.
HOW A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE WORKPLACE WILL HELP YOUR WORKING PARENTS THRIVE
Alison Green speaks to Workplace Wellbeing about how organisations are still failing to implement significant or lasting change, despite their recognition in the huge value in supporting working parents – and have dedicated a lot of time and resources to doing so.
What can HR do in 2024 to retain working parents?
With recent research revealing the challenges mums and dads face in balancing their jobs and home lives, Helen Sachdev talks to People Management UK and outlines how organisations can help working parents
Working dads article features in WeAreTheCity
For working dads, COVID-19 considerably changed their relationship with work and family.
And yet, despite dads wanting to participate more actively in family life, our joint research study with Hult International Business School (Ashridge) – exploring how working parents experience the transition to parenthood in an organisational context – found that many have found it difficult to take on a greater parental role.
Working dads feature in HR Director
For working dads, Covid-19 considerably changed their relationship with work and family. Not only did it prove to be an awakening – with many dads for the first time appreciating the challenges of juggling work and childcare – it was also a period that showed parents a different and better way forward. Now, many have no intention of returning to the outdated, pre-pandemic routines that prove to be barriers to a healthy work-family balance.
WOMBA director, Alison Green, writes in HR Director sharing four ways working dads are pioneering gender equality.
Working dads article features in People Management
WOMBA Director, Alison Green, writes in People Management, the most read and visited HR media brand in the UK, about how working dads have become the pioneers of gender equality.
As more fathers challenge the status quo of paternity leave policies in a post-pandemic world, they are inadvertently driving change, says Alison.