Parental Leave and Family Support UK Benchmark 2025
Parental leave is the new dealbreaker. Our 2025 Benchmark based on 300+ employers shows how policies are evolving, and what’s no longer enough to attract and retain talent.
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Create a high performance, high-empathy work culture by making life better for your people.
Our Work+Family Solutions
We remove barriers to talent, performance and diversity in your business by supporting your people in life.
From Back-Up Care and Workplace Nurseries to Coaching & Development, our powerful, practical solutions enable your people to thrive in life and perform at their best.
We offer:
- Essential Help - practical support that sets your people free to focus on the task at hand
- Expert Advice & Support -specialist guidance & coaching that empowers your people to get the most from work and life.
Essential help, advice and support
Give parents and carers the support they need when Plan A fails.
Reassuringly high-quality and convenient care at, or near, your workplace.
The help that parents and carers need to navigate work and family life, in one place.
Supporting successful transitions to working parenthood, and beyond.
Client Story: Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Trust has developed a a dedicated programme to promote wellness across all areas of their organisation.
Back-Up Care in partnership with Bright Horizons is part of that. Discover how Back-Up Care enables the Trust to improve staff retention and support their working parents and carers in achieving a work-life balance.
Testimonials & Feedback
The Nursery is essential for the operational effectiveness of our personnel. Day to day we need people to be able to concentrate on their work without having to stress about childcare.Vee Howe, SQN LDR, OC PMS, RAF Northolt
For the business the benefit is easy to maintain and brings big rewards. Similarly for employees, access to emergency care brings them peace of mind and helps them to be productive and focused at workEmployee Benefits Manager (UK), JP Morgan Chase & Co
We trust Bright Horizons to have the best interests of our people in mind. Our relationship with them is open, collaborative, and we really enjoy working with them.Senior L&D Partner, Burgess Salmon
Clients we are proud to work with include:
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Find out more
UK Work+Family Snapshot 2025
Each year we conduct research among our clients’ employees to highlight trends, needs and any challenges they experience as employees, parents and carers and understand more about their evolving family support expectations.
Modern Families Index 2025
This year's Modern Families Index 2025 explores the evolving landscape of working parents and carers at a pivotal moment in time, as new policies and workforce expectations contribute to shifting dynamics.
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