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Caring for disabled adults and children
Information on rights at work, benefits and childcare for carers of disabled children and adults
Waving not drowning
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The Waving not drowning project
The Waving not drowning project is run by Janet Mearns for parents of disabled children and carers of adults who want to combine paid work with their caring responsibilities. Email janet.mearns@workingfamilies.org.uk to sign up for the free Waving not drowning newsletter, which comes out two or three times a year, and for the monthly e-bulletin. The project’s dedicated helpline for questions about work and caring is 020 7017 0072.
From time to time, the project runs events and produces publications. Information about events and publications can be found on Working Families’ website, in the newsletter and in the e-bulletin.
Ø How are family finances affected when your disabled child becomes an adult?
Ø When is it most advantageous for a young person to start claiming their own benefits?
Ø Can you change your working hours to fit with your disabled, young person’s new regime?
Working Families’ transition booklet has sections for parents and carers and disabled young people, a step-by-step guide to better-off calculations and a list of useful publications, organisations and websites.
Read or print off From child to adult: a guide to disability, transition and family finances
Click below to see past copies of the newsletter and the most recent e-bulletin:
You might also find the following Working Families’ publications useful:
Make It Work For You: a guide for parents trying to combine paid work and caring for disabled children, contains case studies of parents who’ve managed to combine paid work and caring and information about childcare, finance and your rights in the workplace. To order a hard copy of Make It Work For You or for bulk order enquiries, please email publications@workingfamilies.org.uk.
Getting Into Work: a guide for parents of disabled children returning to work, about job seeking, care, finance and rights in the workplace. Hard copies of this booklet are now sold out.
Flexible working for people caring for a relative or friend at the end of life: a guide about organising flexible working and examples of how others have managed it.
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