Working Carers Passport - guidance for managers (May 2022)
Approximately, 1 in 5 employees juggles work with care, so it is more common than you might think. The aim of the Working Carers Passport is to help employees to balance work and unpaid care, to support their health and wellbeing and ensure, they remain well and at work.
Employers are starting to realise the impact of caring on their own employees and their business. A growing number of employers in all sectors are running Working Carer Passport schemes as part of a wider package to identify and support carers and ultimately avoid losing valuable employees from their workforce.
The Working Carers Passport is a tool to aid organisations to be a supportive employer, helping to balance the employee’s unpaid caring responsibilities and need for flexibility with the needs of the organisation.
View the West Yorkshire - Working carers passport - manager guidance .
Further guidance can be found at carerpassport.uk
Contact your local carers organisation for further help or support:
Working Carers Passport Webinars 
The Race Equality Network working alongside the Partnership has developed a series of webinars dedicated to supporting working carers from ethnic minority communities that work across the Local Authority, VCSE and Health Care Organisations who are, or have been working carers.
Evidence shows that many carers across our workforce face a multitude of challenges of both caring and being from an ethnic background and we want our health and care system to be a supportive environment that understands the needs of our diverse workforce.
The webinars are for anyone who is a working carer living or working within our five local places including Bradford and Craven district, Leeds, Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield and is interested in:
Hearing from working carers about their lived experience to help inspire others, understanding what support is available and learning more about what the Working Carers Passport and how this can benefit you as a working carer.
Supporting our working carers
A working carer is someone in full or part-time employment, who also provides unpaid support, or who looks after a family member, partner or friend who needs help because of their age, physical or mental illness, or disability. Supporting carers to remain in work by embedding flexible working approaches and effective support structures, brings significant benefits to both carers and their families, businesses and the wider economy. Find out more about how you can support your working carers.
The Advisory Board have produced a document around Informal Caregiver Flexible Working Arrangements exploring how a workforce support tool is redefining the employer-employee relationship
