General Information

The following links with a brief background summary are intended as signposting information that will be useful for Personal Assistants and Employers. Click on the highlighted links to go through and find more information:

Skills for Care

Skills for Care work with individuals who employ their own care and support.The role of Skills for Care is to ensure that the adult social care workforce has the skills and qualifications to deliver high quality social care. 

Skills for Care support for Direct employers

This web page gives information about support that Skills for Care can offer. From Induction Standards to funding for training and information about qualifications

PA toolkit

A toolkit to help people employ their own personal assistants

Supporting me guides: 

These are useful guides which support Personal Assistants and Direct employers to understand what it means to be a Personal Assistant and what sort of support may be required. Each booklet has a different area of support which it focuses on: 

• Challenging behaviour
• Autism
• Learning Disability 
• End of Life Care
• Mental Health 

PA Framework

A framework for supporting personal assistants working in adult social care has been developed. The framework sets out a strategy to enable support for the PA workforce and their employers. 

National Minimum Data set for Social Care

Set up an account with information about the staff you employ. This will enable you to contribute to the data about the adult social care workforce and influence policy and funding decisions as well as enable you to access Workforce Development Funding.

Employment aspects and workforce implications of Direct Payments

This report is the result of a survey that explored direct payment recipients' experiences of being employers 

Page last edited: 20 October 2011