Active Independence

Guidance for individual employers on recruiting self-employed personal assistants

Personal Assistant (PA) employment status is not a matter of choice; it depends on the circumstances. The most likely situation is that […]

Most personal assistants will at some time in their career be asked to provide a DBS check because they are working where […]

As more people are encouraged to have their care and support provided by Personal Assistants (PAs) the role and tasks they are […]

Skills for Care is conducting some research for the Department of Health to scope the dementia social care workforce. They are really […]

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

Active Independence has been spending the last few months working with a small number of other organisations in Doncaster to create a […]

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

“My advocate was very supportive and understanding from our first meeting. he helped me to take charge of claiming Personal Independence Payment […]

We are excited to announce a new programme of training sessions specially designed for PAs in Rotherham and Doncaster. We have been […]

over the past few weeks we have been working with some of our members in Rotherham to establish a local support group. […]