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DEMENTIA CHALLENGERS
EMPLOYMENT: HOW CAN MY EMPLOYER SUPPORT ME?


The NHS Choices website has comprehensive information about your entitlements under UK Law as well as a confidential free helpline.

You are entitled to ask whether you could work in a more flexible way, but your employer has the right to refuse this if they can give business reasons for refusal. Some organisations already operate flexible working for employees.  It may be worth having that conversation, even if only to reach an understanding that at times you may need to be away from work at short notice due to carer responsibilities.

There's a good guide about your rights as a carer from Carers UK.

General information 

Skills for Care have developed a range of resources which you could share with your employer, these are in a toolkit format.  Given there are six million carers in the UK, you are probably not the only one they employ.  Take a look at the resources and share them with your employer. 


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