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Supporting carers in your workplace

The course also covers how employers must identify and support carers by law and how they can ensure that their workplace is truly carer-friendly.

On completion of this course you will be able to: 

  • understand caring and its impact
  • identify carers in the workplace and their needs
  • outline the business case for their support 
  • understand the legal requirements for supporting carers
  • explore practical and sustainable ways in which you and your organisation can support them 
  • understand the different nature of caring situations and the range of options available to managers

Supporting carers in your workplace

This module defines who we mean by carers and explores ways of identifying them in the workplace. It will look at what happens if carers don’t get the support they need and the business case for supporting them.

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