Ebrill 2023

John Perryman, Policy and Public Affairs Manager, Carers UK – 25/08/2022 Millions of people in the UK juggle their unpaid caring responsibilities with paid employment. Balancing work and care can be a real struggle – with many carers saying they are tired, stressed and struggling to manage their own physical and mental health having to […]

Matt Taylor, Technology Graduate, BT, and Committee Member of BT’s Carers Network – 21/04/2022  I became a full-time carer at the age of 10 when my mum’s disability started. My childhood was spent running a household, looking after my younger siblings, and caring for my mum. At that age I really didn’t consider that that

Katherine Wilson, Head of Employment, Carers UK – 27/07/2021  Research has shown that more flexible forms of working are here to stay. A YouGov survey published by Acas in June found that more than half (55%) of employers in England, Wales and Scotland expect an increase in staff working remotely or from home part of the week.  And

Matt Britnell, Metropolitan Police Service – 25/05/2021 I am a police officer with 20 years’ experience within the Met and, up until 6 years ago, I had been a front line copper. I served on a specialist public order unit, was authorised to carry firearms and led a team combating the drugs trade in the

Helen Walker, Chief Executive, Carers UK – 28/04/2021 At Carers UK we spend a lot of time helping you to support your employees with caring responsibilities and as you might expect, given the cause, many of our own staff have caring responsibilities – so do we walk the talk as well? And what have we

Hannah Usher, Harriet Brown and Amanda Lunan, PwC – 30/03/2021 Between the time of the first lockdown to now SPACE, our parents and carers network at PwC, has seen a 150% increase in membership numbers; many of these are carers who were looking for extra support. From people who’ve already been in a caring situation,

Madeleine Starr MBE, Director of Business Development and Innovation, and Katherine Wilson, Head of Employment, Carers UK – 26/11/2020 MS: In some ways we take flexible working for granted – especially after nine months in which many people have been working from home – but you and I know that it wasn’t always like that!

Working carer, Health and Care Partnership – 28/10/2020 I stood nervously outside my manager’s office, clutching my envelope containing my resignation from being a midwife, I took a deep breath and knocked. I can’t believe it had come to this, I was leaving a job I loved, a profession I have dreamed off because I

Linda D’oyley, Crown Prosecution Service – 28/8/2020 My name is Linda D’oyley and I have worked in the CPS since 2001. I have been a carer since January 2014 when my parents and grandmother ‘Nan’ moved to be nearer to me so that I could help to care for my Nan who was in her