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The Parent’s Portal as an employee benefit

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The Parents Portal can become an employee benefit for businesses and organisations who want to support working parents of autistic and neurodivergent children.

Here at Autism Early Support, underpinning our core purpose is the belief that for children to achieve the best outcomes, they must have as much appropriate support around them as possible. We have always therefore invested in the provision of knowledge, strategies, guidance and peer support for parents.

By adopting The Parent’s Portal for your employees you will be offering instant, unlimited access to a community of online support, expert knowledge and understanding.  We know that with timely, trusted guidance, parents learn strategies to support both their family and themselves.  With netter family wellbeing, balancing work & home life becomes much more possible.

Insight into working parents

A huge percentage of the workforce have dependent children:

  • 92% of today’s employed fathers and 75% of employed mothers have dependent children
  • 2025 City & Guilds survey found that approx. 50% of neurodivergent professionals had children with or awaiting at least one neurodivergent diagnosis.

In the UK today, the system to support children and young people with special educational needs is in crisis.

Ambitious About Autism research surveyed 900 parents of autistic children and found that:

  • 30% had given up their jobs because of their child’s school exclusions
  • 29% of this group said they had missed days from work
  • 20% reduced from full to part time work
  • 90% of parents experienced sleep loss due to the stress of not being able to find suitable education

Too many families are struggling to get the help their children desperately need and there is a real risk of the UK having a generation of children who will leave school without ever having received the help they need. (Findings of Support for children and young peoples with special educational needs, Public Accounts Committee, January 2025)

How our Parent’s Portal can help

The Parent’s Portal is now available as an employee benefit and supports parents and carers of children aged 2-17 years who have noticed differences in their child, are exploring neurodivergence, and are looking for support and answers.

The Parent’s Portal will enhance the support you already have in place.

Your employees will gain instant, unlimited access to a community of online support, expert knowledge and understanding. With timely guidance, parents learn strategies to support both their family and themselves and balancing work & home life becomes so much more possible.

Boost employee wellbeing:

  • Reduce stress and anxiety – with access to expert advice mental health can improve and absences can lessen.
  • Support work-life balance – with more control of their home life, you are more able to be more engaged at work.
  • All staff can access – the Portal content is relevant for all employees, it can enable your entire workforce to improve their understanding of neurodiversity.

Boost productivity and retention

  • Retain talented, experienced staff – Parents of children with special educational needs, often struggle to find truly supportive workplaces.
  • Improve engagement – by feeling valued employees are more likely to show loyalty and longer-term commitment.
  • Reduce presenteeism – with more support there’s more capacity to engage at work.

Recognition as an equitable employer

  • Attract talent – Offering innovative, meaningful support differentiates your business in a competitive job market.
  • Enhance your existing Equity Diversity & Inclusion strategies – the Parent’s Portal can be added to your current provision.

See a Portal demo and start the conversation

If you recognise the value of this forward-thinking investment, then we would like to partner with you to make a difference.

To start a conversation about how this could work for your business, please email Sarah Sweet-Rowley.

Email Sarah