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WELCOME COME T TO YOU OUR CH R CHARI RITY

Mak akin ing C Care are Visib ible le

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Linda Eades

Head of Caring and Health Services

Our Vision…

Is a lifelong community

• f people offering effective

support for each other when life takes a turn for the worse.

We offer…

A range of services and support online and offline, both from ourselves and in partnership with a range of

• ther specialist
• rganisations.

Key facts

All serving, former or retired civil servants (and their dependants) can seek the Charity’s help at any time There is no need to donate to be eligible for our help, (but it’s great if you do and there are many ways you can) We are NOT a membership

• rganisation

Supporting Carers in the Workplace

Linda Eades, The Charity for Civil Servants Madeleine Starr, Director of Business Development and Innovation, Carers UK Katherine Wilson, Head of Employment, Carers UK

Carers look after loved ones who are

• lder, disabled or seriously ill.

Caring can affect anyone, at any age, at any time and can last a lifetime. Carers UK aims to make sure no one has to care alone.

Every day 6,000 people become carers

• Different milestones from day to day parenting

– Caring has changing or unpredictable support needs – It includes potentially distressing events, such as hospital admission, end of life care and bereavement

• Crisis or cumulative

– It can happen overnight or creep up gradually

• Hard to talk about at work or with friends

– It may be hard to cope with emotionally

How is caring different?

5047 survey respondents

• ver 10 days in early April

Report released 23 April 2020

• Carers are providing more care
• Carers are spending more money
• Carers are worried about the future

• Supports employers to develop

carer friendly workplaces

• Promotes the business benefits
• f supporting carers
• Influences employment

policy and practice

Informed by Business Supported by the specialist knowledge

• f Carers UK

Over 170 members representing 2m employees

Employers for Carers: Carers UK’s business forum

Civil Service EfC Members

• British Geological Survey
• Cabinet Office
• Charity Commission
• Companies House
• Crown Prosecution Service
• Department for Business, Energy

and Industrial Strategy

• Department for Education
• Department for Environment, Food

and Rural Affairs

• Department for International

Development

• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
• Government Legal Department
• HM Revenue and Customs
• Home Office
• Ministry of Defence
• Ministry of Housing, Communities

and Local Government

• Ministry of Justice
• Northern Ireland Office
• Public Health England
• The Charity for Civil Servants

• Access to EfC Digital
• Annual in-house ‘lunch and

learn’ or diagnostic sessions

• Regular networking events
• Tailored promotional

materials and support from the EfC team

EfC member benefits

employersforcarers.org

• E-bulletin, news updates

and opportunity to be at the forefront of new research

• Discounted entry to EfC’s

Carer Confident benchmark

• Membership Plus package:

Digital Resource for Carers

EfC member benefits

employersforcarers.org

carerconfident.org carer.confident@carersuk.org

www.carersuk.org

www.employersforcarers.org client.services@carersuk.org www.carersuk.org info@carersuk.org

Contact:

people came to us for help nearly 80,000 times

£2 million was given out to support people in need 1,000 Carers’ Passports and Statements were issued 569 referrals were made for wellbeing assistance

In 2019…

THANK HANK Y YOU

foryoubyyou.org.uk

Find out more at…

foryoubyyou.org.uk 0800 056 2424 help@foryoubyyou.org.uk

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