Facilities for breastfeeding, expressing, and storing breastmilk

We provide a number of private and quiet facilities for parents and others who are providing breastmilk for a child, to express and store store your milk at work.

When you return to work after childbirth your line manager will meet with you to re-orientate you back into the workplace, conduct a risk assessment and establish if there are any particular arrangements you may require. Your needs as a parent will be taken into account when scheduling work and this may include changing working conditions or hours of work. You may also need to make use of the University facilities for breastfeeding and expressing and storing breast milk at work.

Please contact your School/Directorate Senior People Partner if you have any questions or need their support and assistance.

There are two main facilities for breastfeeding and storage of milk in the University. These are available to staff and students.

City Campus

Basement floor, Tower Building, room B.05

This private room contains a chair you can relax in, as well as a fridge where the milk can be stored. The room requires a key, which you can obtain from Tower Reception. We will ask you to sign in and out when you enter and exit the room.

The room will be available during normal working hours. Please be mindful of your time in the room as others may want to use it and try to limit to one hour. If you don't return the keys after an hour, a member of reception staff will check in on you for health and safety reasons. You are asked to leave the room clean and ready for the next person to use.

Life Sciences

Wellcome Trust Building

The New Birth Parents Nursing Room is on the ground floor of the Wellcome Trust Building Atrium, east side, within the area leading to the toilets.

Guidelines for using the room:

• The room is available to users 24 hours a day but only bookable during working hours (09:00 - 17:00).
• Staff who require to use the room will be updated of the procedure for booking by the relevant Lab Manager following a risk assessment for pregnant people.