EfC members receive the following benefits:
Resources
- Access to our online members’ platform, EfC Digital, containing e-Learning, best practice examples, sample policies and toolkits. The platform is co-branded to reflect your corporate identity.
- Access to the Digital Resource for Carers*, designed to support working carers through a full range of online resources they can access anytime, anywhere. Resources include e-Learning, free access to Jointly (Carers UK’s care co-ordination app), as well as information and support on health & wellbeing, financial planning and understanding carers rights (*via EfC Plus membership level).
- Tailored promotional materials and use of our logo to help promote your EfC membership internally and externally.
Training and Consultancy
- An initial consultation/diagnostic session - to identify where we can best build upon your existing policies and practices or focus on a specific issue you are facing.
- A free annual ‘lunch and learn’ or training session tailored to meet individual requirements. (Further sessions can be arranged).
- A discounted assessment fee for Carer Confident, our employer benchmarking scheme, which you can read more about here.
Events and Networking
- Invitations to Members Networking Events focusing on a current topic.
- Opportunity to be connected with peers who can share their experiences and best practice, specific to your organisation’s objectives.
- Invitations to key Carers UK events, such as the annual Carers Rights Day Parliamentary reception.
Research
- The chance to access new insight surveys (as and when they're released) and topical policy debates.
- Opportunities to participate in national and international research.
Latest updates
Press Release
Andy Burnham is right to make social care an early priority as the UK's next Prime Minister
17 July 26
In a video posted on Facebook, the incoming Prime Minister speaks to voters in Cardiff city centre and mentions his plans for social care, saying that “if there’s one area I’m going to expend quite a lot of political capital, it’s going to be on social care.”
Press Release
Response to ADASS Spring survey report
15 July 26
Carers UK responds to the publication of the ADASS Spring Survey 2026 today
Press Release
Launch of cross- government Carers Action Plan
14 July 26
Today, the Government has launched a cross-government Carers Action Plan signed by four Ministers, across health and social care, welfare, work and education.
Press Release
Care Quality Commission publishes report on assessments by Local Authorities
14 July 26
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a report drawing together findings from the first-ever national programme of assessments of local authorities in England, including the identification and support offered to unpaid carers.
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