The Department of Education & Training (DE&T) 'Flexible Work Options: achieving work life balance Kit offers information for managers and staff. On this webpage you'll find downloadable kits for Flexible Work Guidelines, Flexible Work Managers' Guide, Flexible Work Staff Guide, Telecommuting Guidelinesand Work Life Balance in Schools. Information includes descriptions of flexible work and leave arrangements, and how and why these arrangements might be put into practice. You'll also find case studies of staff and managers who have successfully put flexible work and leave arrangements into practice.

This series of fact sheets provides information about creating a family-friendly workplace. Topics include why family-friendly policies are positive for business, developing and implementing policies, negotiating agreements, evaluating work and family strategies and cheap and easy ways to create a family-friendly workplace.

This guide provides advice about implementing and managing family-friendly work practices in small business. It includes real-life  examples from small and medium businesses in metropolitan and rural  New South Wales.

WIRE - Women's Information, URCOT and QVWC present this timely, helpful resource for women seeking information and advice about creating family friendly workplaces.

The booklet answers questions such as:

• Why should we make our workplace family friendly?

• What options are available to help women balance work and family life?

• How can we make these options a reality in our workplace?
  

Making Flexible Work a Success: a guide to promoting work-life balance in the Victorian public Sector is a hands-on guide for leaders, managers and employees. It provides flexible work tools, practical organisational case studies and checklists for assessing and reviewing flexible work options. You'll also find links to an 'Ethics Framework' and contemporary research about work life balance.

This Best Practice Manual, compiled by the ASU, provides a comprehensive resource aimed at employers, employees and boards of management in the social and community services sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of how to implement family and work life balance provisions in the workplace and makes the task that much easier by providing examples of best practice clauses and policies that can be easily adapted to suit most SACS workplaces.

The Manual was made possible with the support of the Victorian Government, Industrial Relations Victoria.