Madeleine Starr, Strategic Projects Manager, Carers UK

Madeleine Starr is Head of Policy Development at Carers UK, which she joined in 2000. From 2002 to 2007 she managed the innovative Action for Carers and Employment (ACE National) partnership, funded by the ESF EQUAL Community Initiative Programme, which developed and tested support in and into paid work for carers. Key outcomes from the partnership were Learning for Living, a pre-vocational e-learning programme for carers, the establishment of Employers for Carers, a forum for employers committed to developing and promoting good practice to support carers in the workplace, and the Carers, Employment and Services Report Series, the most comprehensive ever quantitative and qualitative research into carers and employment, carried out by Professor Sue Yeandle.

Madeleine has worked in the field of caring and employment since 1998. She was recently recognised as a Working Families Pioneer for ‘her sustained and successful campaigning for carers’ employment rights, and for her influence in establishing Employers for Carers’.