single parent inclusive employers
how can employers be inclusive to single parents?
Diversity and inclusion strategies are essential to any modern organisation which values its workforce and wants to get the best from them. Despite up to 80% of single parents facing discrimination though, very few employers consider single parents when drawing up their D&I strategies. That needs to change.
what can my organisation do?
As part of your organisation’s D&I strategy, organisations can review their policies and practices in relation to single parents and identify ways to ensure that single parents are treated fairly from recruitment right through to promotions and in more challenging times of redundancies.
It is essential that businesses understand how single parents are treated within the business and review ways to challenge negative stigma and stereotypes to ensure single parents are able to progress within the business.
We have put together a list of suggested single parent inclusive policies which your business can use as a starting point.
Don’t forget to also think about how your core business might be better able to support single parents e.g. are your products and services accessible to single parents?
single parent rights’ employer support
We can support your organisation to become single parent inclusive in various ways, including:
Provide a talk to your staff about single parent discrimination and how to address it
Support you to identify relevant single parent inclusive HR policies
Work together to conduct a media campaign to raise awareness of your single parent inclusive policies
learn more
If you want to know more about the campaign you can read about the campaign here, and more detailed information on why single parents need protected characteristics here. Or you can check out our FAQs page. You can learn more about the legal background to the campaign here.
Our events page also tells you all about upcoming events where you can learn more about the campaign, or get involved with campaign activities.
talk to us
We’d love to hear about what types of single parent inclusion you are undertaking as an employer.