Picking Your Pathways

ARC (Association for Real Change) and ILA (Independent Living Alternatives) have held 6 consultations attended by P.A.s and P.A. users across England through a project funded by Skills for Care New Types of Worker National Fund.

The aim of the project, 'Picking your Pathways' was to consult with P.A.s and P.A. users to identify good training currently available for P.A.s, training that is used because that is all that is available but really not a good fit for and training needs where there is no current training available. In addition 127 in-depth questionnaires were completed.

Reports have been produced form the 6 consultations and these and the questionnaires are being used to produce a training matrix.

A final report will be produced for Skills for Care on the gaps in training for P.A.s with a suggested structure of training which will attract funding.

To see the report for the consultation held in Bristol click here

To see the report for the consultation held in Newcastle click here

To see the report for the consultation held in Northwich click here

To see the report for the consultation held in Nottingham click here

To see the report for the consultation held in Rugby click here

To see the report for the consultation held in Southampton click here

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.

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