NAFIS Awards 2025
About the NAFIS Awards 2025
Thank you to everyone who sent in a nomination for the Awards. Nominations have now closed.
The annual NAFIS Awards recognise the excellent work of Family Information Services around the country and celebrate their remarkable contributions to local communities.
The winners of this year’s Awards will be announced at the NAFIS Awards 2025 ceremony at 12:30 on Wednesday 26 November.
On this page you will find information about the categories of NAFIS Awards.
Why should you nominate your Family Information Service for an Award?
NAFIS Awards give Family Information Services the opportunity to spread the word about their hard work. They provide a national platform to both share and celebrate achievements. The NAFIS Awards are judged by Parent Champion volunteers and a Coram Family and Childcare Trustee.
Previous award winners say that winning a NAFIS Award has led to greater recognition of their Family Information Service at local and national level. NAFIS Awards are valued and recognised by the wider community.
Each winner receives an Award certificate for display. Coram Family and Childcare offer support to help Award winners promote their achievement.
At 12.30 on 26 November at the NAFIS Conference 2025, the winners of the NAFIS Awards 2025 will be announced. These Awards celebrate best practice and recognise the work of Family Information Services in meeting local needs.
NAFIS Awards 2025 categories
NAFIS members can nominate Family Information Services that are particularly impressive in one of the Award categories. A FIS can be nominated for more than one category of Award. Click on each Award category heading below to find out more:
Best Community Engagement
This category celebrates Family Information
Services that excel in connecting with local
stakeholders and families, focusing on:
• Partnerships and collaboration with local services and other organisations
• Understanding the needs of their local community
• Use of social media and digital tools for community engagement
• Other engagement through relevant events, or
marketing.
Best Local Offer Directory
This award celebrates the innovative work behind setting up a successful Local Offer which meets the needs of families. Nominations could include:
• How parents, carers and young people coproduced the Local Offer directory
• Ways that the Local Offer is easy to navigate online
• Ways that the Local Offer is promoted, including with other services
• How the Local Offer is integrated with other teams and services
Best FIS Directory
This category recognises the important work that goes into providing an accessible, welcoming, and user-friendly FIS directory. Nominations could include:
• How parents, carers and young people have been involved in the design of the directory
• Ways that the directory is easy to navigate online
• Ways that the directory is promoted, including with other services
• How is easy it is for parents to find out about the childcare available
in their area
• How well the directory provides information about free early
education and other help to pay for it
Best Promotion of the Expanded Childcare Entitlements
This award recognises teams that have effectively promoted the expansion of childcare entitlements for working families alongside promotion of the whole range of funded entitlements, focusing on:
• Helping working parents understand the expansion of funded entitlements
• Reaching families least likely to take-up early education, particularly families experiencing disadvantage
• Effective outreach, for example face-to-face
• Online engagement and innovative use of social media
• Addressing the local barriers to take-up of funded early education
• Using innovative promotion strategies and materials
• How they have worked to ensure sufficiency is being met for all of the childcare funded offers
Best Promotion of a Family Hub Digital Offer
This award recognises teams that have worked to develop a digital Family Hub offer and how it has been promoted to parents/carers, focussing on:
• How parents/ carers have been involved in the design of the directory
• Understanding and meeting the needs of local families
• Bringing information, advice and guidance together to support families in an integrated way
• Effective promotion of the offer, service or information, including use of digital media