EfC members receive the following benefits:
Resources
- Access to our online members’ platform, EfC Digital, containing e-Learning, best practice examples, sample policies and toolkits. The platform is co-branded to reflect your corporate identity.
- Access to the Digital Resource for Carers*, designed to support working carers through a full range of online resources they can access anytime, anywhere. Resources include e-Learning, free access to Jointly (Carers UK’s care co-ordination app), as well as information and support on health & wellbeing, financial planning and understanding carers rights (*via EfC Plus membership level).
- Tailored promotional materials and use of our logo to help promote your EfC membership internally and externally.
Training and Consultancy
- An initial consultation/diagnostic session - to identify where we can best build upon your existing policies and practices or focus on a specific issue you are facing.
- A free annual ‘lunch and learn’ or training session tailored to meet individual requirements. (Further sessions can be arranged).
- A discounted assessment fee for Carer Confident, our employer benchmarking scheme, which you can read more about here.
Events and Networking
- Invitations to Members Networking Events focusing on a current topic.
- Opportunity to be connected with peers who can share their experiences and best practice, specific to your organisation’s objectives.
- Invitations to key Carers UK events, such as the annual Carers Rights Day Parliamentary reception.
Research
- The chance to access new insight surveys (as and when they're released) and topical policy debates.
- Opportunities to participate in national and international research.
Latest updates
Press Release
Carers UK backs Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Essentials Guarantee campaign
19 April 23
Carers UK has joined up with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and 90 other charities to call on party leaders…
Press Release
Carer’s Leave Bill passes Committee Stage in the House of Lords
19 April 23
The Carer’s Leave Bill, a Private Member’s Bill brought forward by Wendy Chamberlain MP, has successfully passed Committee Stage in…
Press Release
MLAs unite in call for new government strategy for unpaid carers
17 April 23
MLAs from the largest parties in Stormont make joint call for a new Carers Strategy for Northern Ireland.
Press Release
Carers UK responds to Government’s adult social care reform package
04 April 23
Today the Department for Health and Social Care has published its implementation paper Next Steps to Put People at the…
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