Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will place in the Library a list of the workplace benefits that her Department provides to its staff with caring responsibilities.
DFID encourages managers to take a positive, proactive approach in working together with employees to agree arrangements for caring, taking account of both caring and business needs. DFID has signed up to the Carer’s Charter and encourage managers and employees to record caring arrangements on our HR systems.
In terms of workplace benefits, DFID offers:
To strengthen our support and learn from best practice, we have also recently signed up to Employers for Carers.