The calls to action were made at the Family and Parenting Institute (FPI) seminar, Knowing Families, and will form the basis of a report which ministers will be asked to respond to over the summer.
Current legislation gives employers 26 weeks after recruiting someone before they are obliged to negotiate more flexible hours with them. But in a round table discussion at the FPI event, charities and think tanks called for the law to be changed.
Sarah Jackson, chief executive of charity Working Families, urged ministers to look at removing the 26-week barrier "so that people with children and care responsibilities can get the flexibility they need from day one".
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