Policy on supporting carers Statutory carer’s leave: How will the new employment right work? Carer’s Leave UK Champion equitable access to care in your policies:Take steps to level up the support you offer people of different genders to care, adopting a more modern approach of offering equal...
Section 17 of the Mental Health Act (1983) in England and Wales allows for temporary leave from hospital, from an hour in the hospital grounds to going home for a few days. However, carers are not always involved in decisions around statutory s.17 leave, even where ...
The charity Kinship, which has been campaigning for kinship carers to have the same rights to paid leave as parents and adopters, has welcomed the move by Tesco. There are 152,000 children in the UK growing up in kinship care and they estimate that hundreds of kinship carers wor...
Despite the introduction of the Carers Leave Act 2024, which grants some rights to flexible working, much needs to be done. Employment protection and flexibility for carers are limited, with many facing harassment or pay cuts due to their caregiving responsibilities. The need for robust employment ...
Access to and use of such support services however, often depends on the geographical location of the service in relation to the carer (i.e., whether living in urban, regional, or remote areas), the carer’s ability to leave their family member to attend face-to-face sessions, and/or ...
having sufficient research funding to pay for respite care in the home so that the carer can leave the home for a few hours to participate in research activities. As well, paying salary costs to enable working carers (carers who balance paid work with informal care) to leave their paid work...
I always leave the discharge note on her table where she also has her ventilator and everything is there. So if she struggles to breathe and presses the button [on her alarm] and the ambulance comes and she says “oh, my back is so sore,” [but] it isn’t that, that’s not why...
Young carers face a variety of challenges at school. While schools can be vital places of support, the assistance they receive at school often seems selective and fails to consider the unique life situations of individual students. This paper examines th