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Category: PA Knowledge Base

02/12/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Flu jabs for Personal Assistants

As of May 2016 it is expected that all front line care staff be offered the flu vaccination by their employer. We’ve […]

05/10/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

PAs and Insurance

We get asked about PA insurance quite a lot. This article focuses on what we found when we looked into it. Insurance […]

30/06/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Adult Safeguarding

Safeguarding is a really important matter for PAs and is something about which we get a lot of enquiries. Because of all […]

07/06/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Diabetes Care for Older People

The PA Support Service gets a number of enquiries from PAs wanting advice and information about diabetes. To answer this need, earlier […]

07/06/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

A guide to training for PAs and individual employers

There is a brand new guide about training and development opportunities available for PAs and Individual Employers. It’s full of great opportunities […]

07/05/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Get trained up

When looking for care provision, more and more people are beginning to bypass domiciliary care agencies in favour of employing their own […]

08/04/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Supporting Wheelchair Users

It is an unfortunate reality but many disabled people who are wheelchair users lead quite sedentary lives and are likely to put […]

07/03/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

Are you eligible for a pension? A Pensions Update…

We thought it would be useful to give you some of the latest information presented at the event. It does all seem […]

13/02/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

What is Universal Credit?

Most PAs have two or 3 three part-time jobs to give them enough income from wages to balance any loss in benefits. […]

09/01/201629/07/2021PA Knowledge Base, PA News

What happens when you’re too ill to work?

At this time of year there are lots of winter bugs and viruses around which can result in PAs being ill and […]

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