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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
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Andy Burnham's appointment as Prime Minister is an opportunity for unpaid carers
20 July 26
Andy Burnham's appointment as Prime Minister offers an important opportunity to improve support for the UK’s 5.8 million unpaid carers
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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.
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