Carer's leave: weeks per year

The unpaid leave an employee caring for a dependant with a long-term need can take in any twelve months, in days or half days if they prefer.

1week

Primary source only Statutory Instrument Great Britain in force since 2024-04-06

Checked against its sources: statute verified 2026-09-21

Scope: One week, and it is the EMPLOYEE's week: regulation 6(2) gives the period they are normally required to work in a week, 6(3) divides a varying pattern's annual total by 52, and 6(4) and (5) deal with short service. The leave may be taken in individual days or half days (reg 7), so "one week" is a quantity of time and not a block. It is UNPAID — there is no carer's-pay figure to pair this with — and it is per relevant period, not per dependant.

Current sources

Source A · Legislationhttps://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/251/made (SI 2024/251 reg 5(1) as made: "An employee who satisfies the conditions in regulation 4 is entitled one week of carer's leave during the relevant period"; in force 6 April 2024, reg 1(2), applying to employees who give notice on or after that date, reg 2(1))

retrieved 2026-09-11

History

Value	From	To	Status	Sources
1	2024-04-06	—	Primary source only	Legislation: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/251/made (SI 2024/251 reg 5(1) as made: "An employee who satisfies the conditions in regulation 4 is entitled one week of carer's leave during the relevant period"; in force 6 April 2024, reg 1(2), applying to employees who give notice on or after that date, reg 2(1)) retrieved 2026-09-11

Receipt

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Figure ID: employment.leave.carers_weeks
Name in the API: Carer's leave: weeks per relevant period
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status): si·weeks·GB·single_source_A
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Compiler's notes

An SI carry (ADR-0014), and a HOST-STATES one: no textual amendment touches regulation 5, so the 2024 Regulations state the value by their own words and their as-made text is its own frozen witness. The locator token reproduces the drafting as it stands, including the missing "to" in "is entitled one week" — read off the archived bytes, because a token that tidies the text misses. No archived GOV.UK page states the entitlement, so the record is single_source_A by design.