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Welcome to the Working Carers Gateway

This website has been created to help people who are juggling working AND caring roles.

Who is a working carer? - A working carer is a person who is in paid employment and who cares for a relative or friend who is ill, frail, has a disability or is ageing. They may work full-time, part-time, casually or have a business of their own

Recently become a working carer?


Then you have come to the right place. Visit our carer fact sheets to
find out your options when it comes to dealing with Centrelink, your workplace and the new role you have taken on.

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Read the Work 'n' Care Monthly Newsletter

The latest edition Work 'n' Care, Our monthly newsletter, is now available. Take some time and have a look as our goal is to present you with new information and effective projects to improve carers’ lives, so that what works, spreads.


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Quick Links

 

Employee Guide

Read our employee tips on how to speak with your employer and making your workplace carer friendly.

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Employer Advice

Our Employer section has a range of information to help any size employer make the most of the carers at work.

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Carers Toolkit

Find out how this toolkit can help you describe daily carer activities for job applications.

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Don't Ditch Disability Advocacy


Stand by me

  

Hi all, 

Just asking for some support - we are running an online petition to ask the state government to continue funding advocacy and information services for people with a disability across NSW.

DAISI Services Limited, who provide the Working Carers Gateway, is one of those services. The NSW government decision to stop funding  our information service will mean that after June 30 2018 we will not be able to provide community information, connection and referral support for people with a disability in our community.

At a time when our most vulnerable members of the community are experiencing one of the greatest changes to their support in decades we need to be able to stand by them supporting them through this change.

Please sign the petition and ask your MP to fix the problem

Joanne McLean
CEO
DAISI Services Limited 

Link to petition: http://bit.ly/StandByMeNSW


 

Carer Strategies


Carer Recognition

The NSW Carers (Recognition) Act 2010 (the Act) was introduced to provide recognition of carers and to establish a Carers Advisory Council.

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NSW Carers Strategy

The NSW Carers Strategy recognises the valuable contribution that carers make to NSW. The Strategy focuses on five key areas.

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National Carers Strategy

The National Carer Strategy contains a vision, an aim and six important priority areas for action. The strategy was developed with key stakeholders.

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Statistics

  • 2.7 million unpaid carers in Australia 
  • more than 770,000 carers are primary carers 
  • 300,000 carers are under the age of 24 
  • 150,000 carers are under the age of 18 
  • over 1.5 million carers are of working age (18-64) 
  • 31,600 Indigenous carers are over the age of 15 
  • 620,000 carers were born outside Australia 
  • 366,700 carers were born in non-English speaking countries 
  • 520,000 carers are over 65 years of age 
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