Helping you think ahead

Career planning
Thinking about your future career can help you keep career options open for you in the future.

Boosting your skills
Whether you are still caring or thinking about a new direction after caring, we can help you feel more confident in your skills,

Planning your future finances
If you are balancing work and care, you may need to think carefully about your retirement, and your financial options.
Latest updates

Thousands of carers receiving new debt letters as review into Carer’s Allowance overpayments continues
The number of carers facing overpayment debts continues to rise.

Carers UK responds to the Government’s publication of the welfare reform green paper proposing changes to disability and health benefits
“We are very concerned that the plans the Government has published today could hit unpaid carers, disabled people and their…

Carers Scotland calls for urgent action to tackle Scotland’s growing mental health crisis for unpaid carers
Press release for ‘State of Caring in Scotland 2024: Health and social care support for unpaid carers’.

Carers NI's response to the NI Programme for Government
Carers are invisible and ignored in the NI Executive’s Programme for Government say Carers NI.
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