access the tools and support you need to grow your employer brand with confidence in the knowledge that you’re doing the right thing for working parents.

YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE…BUT WE DO

  • BECOME WORLD-CLASS

    Access our portal that contains everything you need to become just that. There are downloadable family-friendly policies, maternity and shared parental checklists, maternity planning templates, and a whole host of easy-to-follow guides and case studies from some mega brands. Only the family friendly ones though!

  • RETAIN & ATTRACT AMAZING TALENT

    Tell the world how supportive you are of working parents, keep the ones you have and attract new ones. The Careers After Babies badge means something, and you get it as soon as you join! Then when you become Certified, the real magic happens! It shows everyone just how high your standards are and when we really start to shout about you.

  • CONNECT WITH LIKE-MINDED BUSINESSES

    Join our pioneering community that share your ambition to be the best employer of working parents. Sense-check your thinking and build relationships with like-minded businesses. Ask questions, make friends, seek advice and find answers to those questions you just don’t know how to find. When you're in it, our Careers After Babies community will buzz.

Jess Heagren, Founder of Careers After Babies

“THE FINDINGS OF THE CAREERS AFTER BABIES REPORT WERE ASTONISHING. HUNDREDS OF ORGANISATIONS GOT IN TOUCH ASKING HOW WE CAN MAKE THIS BETTER”

CAREERS AFTER BABIES MEMBERSHIP GIVES YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BECOME A WORLD-CLASS EMPLOYER OF WORKING PARENTS

  • Immediately receive your Careers After Babies membership badge for your website and other channels

  • Download policies for the those all important family moments - maternity, paternity & secondary carers, shared parental leave and more

  • Gain immediate access to our vast library of tools & guides, including FREE ACCESS to Tommy’s Parents at Work portal (for businesses with less than 250 employees)

  • Check how you’re doing against our Certification requirements. When you’re ready, send it to us for review.

  • Publish your jobs to thousands of parents seeking opportunities in family-friendly businesses like yours

  • Showcase the things you are good at contributing to webinars, thought leadership publications and annual reports

  • Join the community and hear from other businesses facing the same challenges as you as well as parenting at work experts

WHAT’S INCLUDED in the careers after babies MEMBERSHIP?

how it works

Careers After Babies is the only affordable external certification that shows where you’re excelling - and then tells everyone about it. You get to be part of a community that works together to help you overcome challenges and be the best employer you can be for working parents - all at an affordable price!

  • Gain immediate access to your benefits including the tools and guides you need to become a brilliant family-friendly employer. Access our jobs board and receive your Careers After Babies membership badge.

    Join our community of world-class employers and contribute to our in a way that suits you - offer your insight and expertise or ask questions and gain insight

  • The Careers After Babies success factors make it easy to become family friendly. Work through each theme using our policies, templates, tools and guides to implement what you need.

    If you have questions, hop over to the community and our experts will be there to help. You’ll be family-friendly before you know it, holding on to those all-important team members!

  • Think you’re ready to be declared a family-friendly employer? Time to go for Certification!

    Submit your Certification assessment and we’ll review it. Then we issue your Certification and start telling the world! We’ll shout about it too showcasing your amazing work to our working parents and the rest of the world! And of course, you’ll have your shiny badge to proudly display on your comms channels!

Careers After Babies are delighted to announce that we’re working in partnership with Tommy’s, the charity that exists to champion people, no matter where they are on the pregnancy journey

“Tommy's has been helping workplaces support their employees through any pregnancy journey, from planning and parenting to complications and losses for some time. Our "Pregnancy and Parenting at Work" training and resources do just that.

We're delighted to partner with Careers After Babies enabling businesses to begin working towards their Certification knowing that together we will be transforming workplaces for families everywhere”

the tools you need to be an amazing employer

  • Downloadable policies

    Show your organisation’s commitment to parents and their wellbeing with our downloadable family-related policy package, that can all be tailored to your organisation’s needs and help you create a supportive and inclusive workplace for everyone.

  • Checklists & templates

    Support your employees consistently through their life-changing moments using our checklists. Gain consistency in your approach to parental support, by providing the essential resources line managers need to support working parents.

  • Guides & case studies

    Empower your team with our easy to follow business guides for HR and line managers, building a family-friendly culture that retains your top talent. Create an inclusive and productive environment learning from the best in the world!.

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