Free helpline for parents and carers

Understanding your rights as a parent can help you to feel less stressed about the way you are treated at work. Working Families is a charity that can help you to gets to grips with employment rights and in-work benefits.

Working Families can advise on a range of topics affecting parents and carers at work. Some common examples are:

• Pregnancy and maternity rights,
• Discrimination as a parent/carer,
• Adoption, paternity and shared parental leave,
• Flexible working and imposed change,
• Emergency and parental leave,
• In-work benefits and tax credits, and
• Free childcare and help with childcare costs

The telephone helpline is open Monday to Friday, 11am-2pm (except on bank holidays). It costs the same as a national call.

0300 012 0312

The telephone helpline is suitable for parents, carers and their advisers.