Government engagement

Women Like Us is often asked by Government and its agencies to contribute our views on parental employment policy areas. Recent involvement includes:

• Women Like Us responds to Government’s consultation on Modern Workplace – Flexible Working. Read our response here.
  
  
• Women Like Us contributes to Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s response to the coalition Government’s child poverty strategy. Read the response report
  
  
• Women Like Us is invited to sit on a new flexible working panel, to explore a business-led approach to stimulating greater availability of part-time work.
  
  
• Government Equality Office’s strategy paper praises Women Like Us model. Visit the GEO website and view a copy of the equality strategy. 
  
  
• Women Like Us responds to DWP’s consultation on welfare to work. Read our response here. 
  
  
• Emma Stewart of Women Like Us is invited by Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP to co-chair DWP’s Family Friendly Working Hours Taskforce. Read the taskforce's report or the Government's response. 
  
  
• Women Like Us chairs part time working group set up by the Child Poverty Unit. Read Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP’s speech at the launch reception for the resulting campaign, ‘Part time, part of your solution’.
  
  
• Women Like Us is asked to give evidence to the Equalities Bill. Read more here. 
  
  
• Women Like Us founder, Emma Stewart, is invited to sit on the London Ministerial Child Poverty Working Group in 2008. The group is currently chaired by Rt Hon Sarah Teather MP.