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Legal Advice Service
Our beneficiaries are working families - so, working parents and their children. There are 13 million working parents in the UK. We prioritise supporting those
Potentially all 13 million UK working parents.
Working Families provides free legal advice to mostly low-income and otherwise disadvantaged parents and carers to support them to balance their work and family responsibilities. We support people who are being treated unfairly at work in connection with their parent/carer status, coaching our service users to challenge unjust treatment, negotiate with their employer, request flexible working, and more. We also have over 200 online information and guidance articles on parental employment rights.
2,000+ parents via our helpline; over 1m website visitors.
By asking helpline/website users questions about their circumstances, work issues, and for feedback.
The CJF has supported our Legal Advice Service to meet demand during COVID-19.
During COVID-19, we are received NLCF/government funding for our Legal Advice Service.