Carers Week 2025- Work and Employment Webinar

Carers Week is held annually and this year, it starts from June 9-15 in 2025. It raises awareness of the challenges unpaid carers face and celebrates their vital contributions to families and communities.

The week aims to help people identify as carers, understand available support, and encourage them to seek help. While focused on the UK, the issues carers face are global, particularly in countries with less support. This year the theme is 'Caring About Equality' highlighting the inequalities faced by unpaid carers, including a greater risk of poverty, social isolation, poor mental and physical health.

The NHS England Unpaid Carers team will be running a series of webinars during the week to highlight the importance of identifying and supporting unpaid carers.

Our third session of the week under the theme Work and Employment is Supporting Carers in the Workplace and Implementation of a carers pledge checklist. This will focus on sharing best practices on how we can best identify and support working carers and how the implementation of a carers pledge checklist works. This will be presented by Jude Boyle (Derbyshire LA & Derbyshire Carers Association), with Cathie Cunnington, Complaints/Carers/Patient Experience Senior Manager, NHS England in the Midlands, chairing the session.

Note that registration opens at 5pm on 13th May and closes on Tuesday 10^th June at 5pm.

Please do share with your networks, the agenda and link to webinar will follow later.

Questions about this event?

Name: Steve Mbara

Email: england.nhsthinkcarer@nhs.net

Telephone: 07900715519