Sentences with phrase «rights as a carer»

When understanding your rights as a carer, it's important to know your employment status as if you are being paid to care for your loved one and enter into a formal employer / employee legal arrangement, then your employee rights will differ, something that is covered separately in this publication.

If you have concerns that your rights as a carer or the rights of the person you care for have been violated, you may need to seek legal advice or assistance.

Not exact matches

I concluded at the time of the riots that of all the things the government now needed to do, it was the married family which most urgently needed to be rebuilt: I was and remain as certain of that as anything I have ever written, and I have been saying it repeatedly for over 20 years: I was saying it, for instance, when I was attacking (in The Mail and also The Telegraph), as it went through the Commons, the parliamentary bill which became that disastrous piece of (Tory) legislation called the Children Act 1989, which abolished parental rights (substituting for them the much weaker «parental responsibility»), which encouraged parents not to spend too much time with their children, which even, preposterously, gave children the right to take legal action against theirparents for attempting to discipline them, which made it «unlawful for a parent or carer to smack their child, except where this amounts to «reasonable punishment»;» and which specified that «Whether a «smack» amounts to reasonable punishment will depend on the circumstances of each case taking into consideration factors like the age of the child and the nature of the smack.»

@OwenJones84 You're right: many people contribute a lot to our society without being highly paid - at work, as volunteers, carers & parents

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

These are mentioned in the EU offer, but not mentioned at all in the UK offer.Also at risk are third country nationals with EU «derivative» rights of residence, such as Zambrano carers of EU citizen children.

She has a right to reside in the UK as the Zambrano carer of her children — i.e. as the third country national carer of her EU citizen children, her presence being required for her EU citizen children to enjoy the rights of EU citizenship.

The Zambrano line of cases only concern the risk that the dependents of Zambrano carers might be compelled to leave EU territory and thus be deprived of the genuine enjoyment of their rights as EU citizens.

A spokesman said the judgment could have wide - ranging implications for local authorities, including a significant increase in claims and potentially having to meet the argument that foster carers are «workers» with attendant employment rights such as holiday pay and sick pay.

Predictably, the newspapers reported it as a major victory for carers generally, giving them broad new rights to time off work, going beyond statutory emergency leave which is, of course, only for arranging care, not for the caring itself (on this point of press misreading of ECJ cases, see Catherine Barnard, Reporting the AG, NLJ, 1 August 2008, p 1095).

You can not be expected to do everything right away, but if the deceased was getting a social welfare payment or you were claiming for them as a dependant or you were getting a Carer's Allowance to look after them, it's important that you notify the Department of Social Protection within the first few days of the death.

Understand the rights of people with a disability and their carers and find information about support groups as well as useful information for managing your healthcare.

As a foster carer, you can choose from several different types of care placements ranging from emergency care right through to respite and longer term care.

Disabled children's services As the carer of a disabled child, you have the right to get their needs assessed by your local social services department.

- Enable family and friends carers raising children outside the care system to have a right to paid leave when they take on the children, just as the Government is doing for adopters, so that they are not forced to give up their job and become reliant on benefits, when they take on the children.

The family and friends carers aren't entitled to financial help, many (38 %) have to give up work to take on the children and unlike adopters they aren't entitled to paid leave, As importantly, if a child is looked after, they have a right to support services, such as a priority school place and leaving care support, where as help for those outside the care system is mainly a postcode lotterAs importantly, if a child is looked after, they have a right to support services, such as a priority school place and leaving care support, where as help for those outside the care system is mainly a postcode lotteras a priority school place and leaving care support, where as help for those outside the care system is mainly a postcode lotteras help for those outside the care system is mainly a postcode lottery.

The aim of these amendments is to give family and friends carers the same employment rights as adoptive parents.

This high court judgement made it clear that family and friends carers, caring for a looked after child who was placed with them by Children's Services, have a right to be paid a fostering allowance at the same approved rates as unrelated foster carers who work for Children's Services.