The next EPWG (hybrid) meeting will take place on 10th and 11th April 2025
Should you have any questions, please contact us at cc@eurocarers.org.
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Meeting on 10th and 11th April (hybrid meeting)
Tour de table
Power Point Presentations:
- European Union (Claire Champeix)
- Austria (Birgit Meinhard)
- Portugal (José Bruno Alves)
- Germany (Sebastian Fisher)
Discussion on Migrants Carers
This meeting will also serve as a valuable opportunity to launch a discussion on the challenges faced by informal carers in long-term care systems that rely on (live-in) migrant care work, with the goal of publishing a Eurocarers Position paper on this topic later this year.
Power Point Presentations:
- Introduction (Claire Champeix)
- Research conducted by the European Centre for Social Welfare and Research (Kai Leichsenring)
- Migrant Carers from Slovakia (Iveta Zdilova)
Background Documents
Position Paper on Informal Carers and Migrant Carers_Concept Note_20032025
Eurocarers’ Survey
To gather members’ perspectives, a consultation is open until 1st June: we warmly invite you to share your concerns, knowledge and expertise via this short online survey.
Desk Review
Literature on live-in care (ECSPWR)
Leiber – 24-Stunden-Pflege – AOK Report (in German)
abschlussbericht-live-in-betreuung-im-familiaeren-bereich (in German)
abschlussbericht-live-in-betreuung-im-familiaeren-bereich (Rough translation in English)
Work-Life Balance
Power Point Presentations:
Background documents
European Commission: Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers and De la Corte-Rodríguez, M., The transposition of the Work-Life Balance Directive in EU Member States – A long way ahead, Report, 2022, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2838/096508
See also information on Carers UK’s campaign on a right to carer’s leave here
See Eurocarers’ Fact sheet on The Work Life Balance Directive: what is in it for carers ? (2019)
and Position Paper: Implementation of Work-Life Balance Directive and new Carers’ Rights Where do we stand? (2020)
Working together on a set of principles for employing informal carers – Agendas, Minutes and Background Documents
Meetings Agendas and Minutes
Meeting on 25/01/2024
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Meeting on 9/11/2023
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Background Documents
Presentation on 25/01/2024[download id=”40008″]
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Meeting on 26th October 2021
Meeting agenda:
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Background documents
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‘Enhancing the social rights of informal carers: the way forward’ (Eurocarers, 2020)
Eurocarers’ fact sheet on Informal care, Poverty and Social Exclusion (Eurocarers, 2018)
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Ireland
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Germany
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France
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Meeting on 16th March 2021
The first EPWG webinar of the year 2021 focused mainly on the European Action Plan to implement the Social Pillar, assessing to what extent it takes into account Eurocarers’ detailed contribution ‘Enhancing the social rights of informal carers: the way forward’ prepared by the group last year, and discussed follow-up actions. The meeting presentation and other documents are available for download here below.
Meeting documents:
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- Eurocarers contribution to the public consultation on the Social Pillar’s Action Plan can be downloaded in here
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Few links to items mentioned by participants during the meeting:
- The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan
- Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan
- Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030
- More information on the European Parliament Informal Carers Interest Group can be found on Eurocarers website in here. Scroll to the bottom of the mentioned page to find links to the meeting reports of prior meetings.
- Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland
- Decree (July 2019) on recognition of informal carers in Madeira Archipelago, Portugal (in Portuguese)
- Decree (November 2019) on recognition of informal carers on Azores Islands, Portugal (in Portuguese)
Meeting on 19th November 2020:
- [download id=”33292″] (added on 30th November)
- [download id=”32893″] (updated on 17th November)
- [download id=”33011″] (added on 19th November)
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Meeting on 30th September 2020:
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Last Updated on May 7, 2025
