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  • Free Training for Personal Assistants and Individual Employers

    Free Training for Personal Assistants and Individual Employers

    11 August 2025

    Skills for Care have funded a range of training courses for Individual Employers and Personal Assistants. The courses are fully funded and have been designed by people with lived experience. They are free to attend and both in person or online sessions are available.

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  • Care Workforce Pathway Survey

    Care Workforce Pathway Survey

    29 July 2025

    Disability Positive is working with Skills for Care on research about Personal Assistants. They want to find out whether having PAs as a formal ‘Role Category’ in the ‘Care Workforce Pathway’ is helping PAs to develop as professionals.

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  • New Sheffield PA Register Co-Production Events

    New Sheffield PA Register Co-Production Events

    05 May 2023

    We’re building a new PA-Register for Sheffield, and we want your help! We’re holding our first co-production events this month to get the views of Individual Employers and Personal Assistants on how we can make the new PA Register work for you. Whether you’ve used the PA Register before or not, we want to hear from you!

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  • COVID-19 PPE for Individual Employers Post March 2023

    COVID-19 PPE for Individual Employers Post March 2023

    04 March 2023

    The Disability Sheffield COVID-19 PPE Service will be ending on 31st March 2023. From April 2023, Individual Employers will be able to access COVID-19 PPE by registering with the NHS PPE Portal. PPE ordered from the portal is free of charge until 31 March 2024 or until stocks are depleted.

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  • Free Training for Individual Employers and PAs 2022/2023

    Free Training for Individual Employers and PAs 2022/2023

    08 January 2023

    Are you employed as a PA for an adult over the age of 18 and feel you could benefit from further training? Do you employ your own PA(s) and want to further their skills and knowledge or improve your understanding of your role and responsibilities as an individual employer? If so, we are running a number of FREE courses until March 2023.

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  • Free Training for PAs and Individual Employers

    Free Training for PAs and Individual Employers

    20 October 2019

    Are you currently employed as a Personal Assistant for an adult over the age of 18 and feel you could benefit from further training? Do you employ your own Personal Assistants and want to further their skills and knowledge, as well as your own? If so, Disability Sheffield are running a number of FREE courses for Personal Assistants and Individual Employers in partnership with Skills for Care and Sheffield City Council starting this September until February 2020.

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  • Digital Security Guide and Animation

    23 May 2018

    We have produced these new resources to help employers of personal assistants ( individual employers ) to understand their legal obligation to store information about their staff safely and securely, regardless of whether the information is digital or paper based. As a result of developing these resources through our work with the Individual Employer and PA group, we are proud to announce that Skills for Care have named Disability Sheffield as a 2018 Innovator, one of ten social care projects nationally which are bringing to life new ideas for different audiences.

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  • Free Training for Personal Assistants

    23 September 2017

    Disability Sheffield are running a number of FREE courses over the next 6 months for existing and aspiring Personal Assistants in partnership with Skills for Care and Sheffield City Council. Places are limited so book now to avoid disappointment.

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  • Free Training for Individual Employers and Personal Assistants

    29 June 2017

    View details of free learning and development opportunities with Sheffield City Council Learning and Development Service from 1st July 2017 to 31st March 2018.

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  • Free Training for Individual Employers and Personal Assistants

    02 May 2017

    View details of free training opportunities with Sheffield City Council Learning and Development Service from 1st April-30th June 2017.

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