Take care: How to be a great employer for working carers by David Grayson

It is well understood in Grayson’s book that the programmatic advice promised by its title stands or falls on another question being satisfactorily answered: why be a great employer for working carers? This is duly addressed right at the beginning. The book is divided into three sections: ‘Why care for carers?’, which discusses current economic and demographic trends, and makes the business case for supporting working carers; ‘Seven steps to being a good employer for working carers’, which is the central, and most concrete, programmatic section, and the one most directly addressed to employers; and ‘Building a movement’, which presents further strategies for building networks that adequately support carers in employment, and suggests that creating a society that recognises, values and facilitates the work of caring alongside (and outside) paid employment is the best and most sustainable way of ensuring that carers are supported.