Give carers a right to paid leave to support attendance at medical appointments

• Petition
• Statistics
• Map

Petition Action

Give carers a right to paid leave to support attendance at medical appointments

Petition Details

Unpaid carers help provide support to elderly or disabled relatives, often preventing them from needing support of the care system and helping reduce public spending.

Additional Information

However, when they support those they care for to attend medical appointments, they have to take annual or unpaid leave from work.

Giving carers paid time off work to enable them to assist those they care for to attend appointments. Prevent them being financially burdened, or taking leave they could otherwise use for much needed break from work, if they need time off to do this.

---

If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.

Sign this petition
at petition.parliament.uk

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus