Richard Makin

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

Madeleine Starr MBE, Director of Business Development and Innovation, Carers UK – 29/06/2020 Carers Week 2020 was our busiest ever for employer events focusing on support for working carers. Ironically, as lockdown brought huge swathes of the economy to a standstill, those able to keep going found themselves busier than ever as they worked hard

Pet Hedges, Technical Business Manager, Credit Risk, Santander and Co-Chair of Santander’s Parents & Carers Network – 28/4/2020 This blog is going to look very different to the one I would’ve written when first asked to contribute over a month ago!  Since then I, like so many others, am working in my home, trying to

Joanne Austin, HSBC – 27/3/2020 I care for four of my closest family members aged between 19 and 79 and who all have different disabilities/illness and needs. My caring role involves facilitating appointments, managing all of my families’ affairs, providing emotional support, dealing with education and healthcare providers and supporting with personal care. In addition, I

Katherine Wilson, Head of Employment, Carers UK – 31/1/2020 Talking to EfC members over the years, I have been increasingly struck by how prevalent caring has become within their workforce, even if ‘carers’ often still seem so hidden at work.  For some of us it’s sudden; someone you love is taken ill or has an