As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly create a carers leave policy for your UK business.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the relevant carers leave guidance on GOV.UK and copy the current legal sections into a working document.
   2. Gather your existing family leave, sickness absence, flexible working, equality, absence-recording and complaints policies, plus your request route, approval roles and record-keeping system.
   3. Paste the GOV.UK text and the business details into the prompt, then ask the chatbot to produce the policy, manager procedure, employee version, source table and open-questions list.
   4. Compare every legal statement in the draft with the GOV.UK text you supplied, and remove or mark any claim that the source does not support.
   5. Send the draft, source table and open questions to an employment solicitor or qualified HR professional for a UK law and consistency check.
   6. Apply the approved wording, insert the real contact route and policy owner, then publish it with the related policies and brief managers on how to handle requests.

   Prompt

   Create a draft carers leave policy for a UK business using the information below and the current GOV.UK guidance I paste after it. This is a workplace policy, not professional advice. Do not invent legal rules, entitlements, deadlines, approval tests, evidence requirements or review dates. If the supplied guidance does not answer a point, write [CHECK WITH EMPLOYMENT LAW PROFESSIONAL] rather than guessing.
   
   Business details:
   - Business name: [BUSINESS NAME]
   - Workforce and locations: [WORKFORCE AND UK LOCATIONS]
   - Existing family leave, sickness absence and flexible working policies: [SUMMARY OR PASTE]
   - How employees contact managers or HR: [PROCESS]
   - Who approves leave and who keeps records: [ROLES]
   - Systems used for requests and records: [SYSTEMS]
   - Desired policy owner and review process: [DETAILS]
   
   Use the pasted GOV.UK guidance as the legal source. Produce:
   1. A concise policy with purpose, scope, definitions, eligibility, the request process, notice and evidence rules only where supported by the source, approval and recording responsibilities, protection from detriment, confidentiality, interaction with other policies, complaints and escalation, and review ownership.
   2. A separate manager procedure with practical steps for receiving and recording a request.
   3. A short employee version in plain English.
   4. A source table listing each legal claim, the exact supporting passage from the supplied guidance and any point requiring professional checking.
   5. A list of business choices still needed before publication.
   
   Use British English. Keep legal wording accurate and avoid promising more than the law or our business rules support. Do not include invented contact details or dates.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.