Have you ever tried to juggle work with a caring role? It isn’t easy. Providing care for a loved one is a responsibility most of us will carry at some point in our lives. The majority of carers are aged between 45 and 64 – many of them valuable employees at the peak of their careers. The cost to your business of losing them is huge.

As a community, with ongoing service cuts and the integration of health and social care, we need unpaid carers more than ever. Think it doesn’t affect your business? It will. Three out of five of us will be a carer at some point: can you afford to compromise 60% of your workforce?

You don’t have to. Becoming a Working for Carers employer will help you to enable carers to stay in work. You will become part of a network of responsible employers leading the way on recognition, equality, and inclusion in the workplace. It will help you to create a culture of support and understanding that all of your staff, not just carers, will be proud to be part of. Corporate social responsibility and good business sense go hand in hand; take care of your people and they will take care of business.

We’ll be hosting 3 free breakfast events across Wiltshire in June. It’s a chance for you to find out what we’re all about and to hear our guest speaker from Novum Law giving a talk for employers: “The Care Act: 10 things you need to know”. Plus there’ll be plenty of time for networking with other businesses whilst enjoying a complimentary breakfast!

Save the date!

Wednesday 10th June – The Red Lion Hotel, Salisbury – 7:30-9:00am Thursday 18th June – Trowbridge RFC, Trowbridge – 7:30-9:00am Thursday 25th June – Marlborough (venue TBC) – 7:30-9:00am Are you on our invitation list? Don’t leave it to chance – email lizzie@carersinwiltshire.co.uk, or follow us on Twitter for updates @Working4Carers.