EVENTS: 2010
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Useful links to resources related to training.
SKILLS FOR CARE
- Care Training Code: a guide for individuals buying in training for their own staff. This guide can be downloaded from the Skills for Care website, click here, select ‘Individuals’ for the relevant guide.
- Yvonne Furze was featured in an interview on Picking Your Pathways*. This programme has lots of information on Personal Assistants and feedback from service users. Click here and select 'view video' in the panel to the right to watch the video.
We are currently develping a database of training providers who deliver training specifically for PAs or their employers through recommendation given by the people who attended the Picking your Pathways consultations.
If you have recieved or know of good training providers delivering training relevant for PAs or PA employers please sned the contacts to panet@arcuk.org.uk and we can include themn our database.
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
- The Expert Carers Programme is a training course designed to enable, inform, empower and develop Carers’ skills. For more information visit the DH website Expert Carers Page
*Picking your pathways is an Association for Real Change project which explores the training routes for PAs and options for PA Employers. For more information on this project click here to visit the ARC Picking Your Pathways Page.
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