Neonatal Care (Leave and Pay) Bill: This introduces a right to a minimum of one week’s leave and pay for employees with responsibility for children receiving neonatal care. This will be available from the first day of employment. Carer’s Leave Bill: This entitles employees to take on...
On the surface, the carer-turned-kidnapper story has strong echoes of Misery, and Monste's starey-eyed unpredictability is indeed reminiscent of Annie Wilkes — but her character also goes deeper than that. Rather than just being an out-and-out sociopath, Montse's relationship with La Niñ...
This week there is a second reading of the proposed Carer’s Leave Bill 2022-2023 in the House of Commons. The second reading is only the second stage of a Bill being considered in the House of Commons, before it can then proceed to be considered by the House of Lords. ...
13-19 October marks National Carers Week. Carers are people who provide unpaid care and support to family members and friends who have a disability, mental health condition, chronic condition, terminal illness, an alcohol or other drug issue or who are frail aged. Anyone can become a carer, ...
The strain of balancing my CDT appointments and work was spreading me thin, too: Every morning at 10:00 AM I’d leave for the lymphedema clinic, get unwrapped, receive manual lymphatic drainage, and then get re-wrapped before catching the bus home by 12:30 PM. Because my mornings were ...
The research explored views on what works well for carers around s.17 leave, what could be improved and the barriers to such improvements. Transcripts were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: Three themes were identified in the analysis: the need for carer s...
This Monday-morning quarterbacking neglects some basic facts about humans: You Can’t Control Other People We surely have influence over our children, but we do not mold them like clay. When they don’t turn out the way we planned, we neglect this fundamental truth. ...
Born in Captivity: The Story of a Girl’s Escape, by Barbara Starke (1931) 15 October 2023 I wouldn’t recommend the parents of a teenage daughter showing signs of wanderlust leave a copy of Barbara Starke’s Born in Captivity lying around the house. At age sixteen, Starke’s aunt gav...
“Ian was diagnosed with bile duct cancer in December and yesterday he passed at 13.07. I’d stopped all work to be his carer but neither of us had any idea that it would all be so fast.”Gelder played the younger brother of Lord Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance) in 12 episodes of the...
Implement practices and structures that support mitigating bias, such as transparent and consistent recruitment processes with diverse representation across the decision makers, thoughtful leave policies (including flexible and generous parental leave and carer’s leave), options for flexible working where po...