Supporting carers at work: Essential Guides
Employers for Carers produces a series of practical guides for working carers and HR teams, Diversity and Inclusion teams and line managers.
Facts and figures about caring
Most people’s lives will include at least one episode of unpaid caring. Already 1 in 7 in any workforce will be caring for someone who is older, disabled or seriously ill.
An employer’s guide
This guide is designed to help employers make the most of the business benefits of supporting working carers as well as understand their legal responsibilities to those carers.
Supporting working carers: a carer’s guide
Caring can be unpredictable; it can happen overnight or creep up on you and often cannot be planned. There are things that you can do to help you cope with the pressures of work and care.
Facts and figures about caring
Most people’s lives will include at least one episode of unpaid caring. Already 1 in 7 in any workforce will be caring for someone who is older, disabled or seriously ill.
The guides include a manager’s handbook, an employer’s guide, a carer’s guide and a guide to requesting flexible working.
“We found the supporting working carers guides an excellent starting point to developing our workplace support for carers.”
An employer’s guide
This guide is designed to help employers make the most of the business
benefits of supporting working carers as well as understand their legal
responsibilities to those carers.
A manager’s handbook
There has never been a more important time to focus on the benefits of retaining skilled workers rather than incurring the costs of recruiting and retraining new staff. Learn more about how to support working carers.
Supporting working carers: a carer’s guide
Caring can be unpredictable; it can happen overnight or creep up on you and often cannot be planned. There are things that you can do to help you cope with the pressures of work and care.
Supporting working carers: a guide to requesting flexible working
A flexible working approach attracts and retains staff, reduces stress and sick leave, increases productivity, improves service delivery, produces cost savings and improves people management.