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Who can I use as my referee?
Who can I use as my referee?
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Written by Miruna Harpa
Updated over a week ago

Your referee should be someone with direct knowledge of your caring situation, for example, this could be a:

  • GP

  • Social worker

  • Close neighbour

  • Member of the community

Equally important is they should be able to confirm your caring responsibilities in some way. This referee cannot be a family member or someone living in your household.

Carefree's definition of a family member as adopted by the UK legislation site is as follows:
An immediate family member is defined in regulation 2(1) as "a parent, son or daughter". A close relative is defined as "a parent, parent-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, step-parent, step-son, step-son-in-law, step-daughter, step-daughter-in-law, brother, brother-in-law, sister or sister-in-law."

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