Skills for Care: New Types of Worker projects

An online survey is being carried out that aims to identify what is important to disabled people when employing and retaining (keeping) staff and what makes good working relationships. It has been designed by disabled people from what disabled people and family carers have said about their own relationship with their PA's.

The project team is looking for disabled people who employ their own Personal Assistants (PA's)/Carers/Support Workers to take part by completing a survey. The project team would also like to receive completed surveys from family carers or anyone else who manages PA's or receives an individual budget or direct payment on behalf of the person being supported by PA's.

Please go to the following link to complete the online survey and find out more information about the research:

http://eastmidlands.skillsforcare.org.uk/news/ASuccessfulWorkingRelationship.aspx

The Survey will close on 13th January 2010.

It has been recognised that online surveys are not accessible to everyone so please contact Reshma Patel on 0778 754 7466, email paresearch@hotmail.co.uk or leave a message with Victoria Garnett at Skills for Care on 0113 241 1218 if you need the survey in a different format such as Microsoft Word or a printed document. Reshma Patel is happy to arrange a telephone interview with you to complete the survey if required.