MPs urge support for unpaid carersBy Robin Latchem
UK employees (including apprentices) have a right to take up to seven days of carer’s leave per year to provide unpaid care for a dependant. This can be taken all together or spread over 12 months – and you are entitled to take this leave from the first day your employment starts. M...
Globally and locally, ongoing demographic, sociocultural and economic changes have implications for unpaid carers. For those who provide unpaid care, particularly at higher intensities, there is substantial evidence of negative effects on employment, health and wellbeing, with associated individual and so...
Essex Support for Carers Making support services and advice available to the 18,000 people that provide unpaid care to disabled and elderly people in Essex. Find out more via their website with Clacton on Sea contacts and online carers resources. ...
Questions for care at home providers What background checks do your carers go through? Will I always have the same carer? What happens when they go on holiday or are sick? How will the carer get access to the house if I can’t let them in? What if I don't get on with my carer...
Paid and unpaid carers: their role in and satisfaction with primary health care for people with learning disabilities To a large extent the health care needs of people with learning disabilities living in the community have been neglected by policy makers, purchasers and p... Joan,Langan,Michael...
"Without unpaid caregivers, caring for someone at home becomes difficult, if not impossible. We must learn the lessons of the pandemic to ensure now and in the future that we recognize, value and support caregivers and ensure they get the support they need. Only by doing this will we enable...
The partnership should ensure that the lived experiences of adults at risk of harm and their unpaid carers are represented at the adult protection committee. Edith Macintosh, interim Chief Executive of the Care Inspectorate, said: “The partnership’s key processes for adult suppo...
These unpaid carers provide support to people with dementia, often sacrificing their own work commitments, social and family life. As part of the 'Partnerships in recovery' module studied in the third year of the pre-registration mental health nursing programme at the University of the West of ...
Support plea for unpaid carersCiaran O'Neill