Each year, we disburse funding to user led organisations to deliver training for individual employers and personal assistants (PAs).
This year, we’ve funded 20 organisations to deliver a range of training courses.
Eastern
User led organisation: Disability Resource Centre
Address: Poynters House, Poynters Road, Dunstable, Bedfordshire LU5 4TP
☏ 01582 470 900 | www.drcbeds.org.uk
Courses:
PA Inductions | Employer Inductions | The Care Certificate | Condition Specific Training |Pre-employer training for prospective and existing employers – Being a Good Employer | Pre-employment training for prospective PAs | Peer led groups |Online Learning
London and South East
User led organisation 1: DASL - Disability Advice Service Lambeth
Address: "we are 336", 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA
☏ 020 7738 5656 | enquiry.line@disabilitylambeth.org.uk | www.disabilitylambeth.org.uk
Courses:
Staff Management and Recruitment (5 week course) | Employer training modules
User led organisation 2: Independent Lives
Address: Southfield House, 11 Liverpool Gardens, Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1RY
☏ 01903 219 482 | ✉ feedback@independentlives.org | www.independentlives.org
Courses:
Good Employer workshops for IEs | Introduction to PA work | Person-centred planning: P.A.T.H (Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope) | Positive behaviourUnderstanding Autism | Basic Makaton | Other training available
User led organisation 3: Kingston Centre for Independent Living (KCIL)
Address: River Reach, 31-35 High Street, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1LF
☏ 020 8546 9603 | ✉ enquiries@kcil.org.uk |www.kcil.org.uk
Courses:
Emergency First Aid at Work Qualification | Manual Handling | Standard Principles of Infection Control | Mental Health Awareness | PA Induction CourseBeing a Good Boss
User led organisation 4: People Matter IW
Address: 1-2 Bernard Way, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5YL
☏ 01983 241494 | ✉ admin@peoplematteriw.org | www.peoplematteriw.org
Courses for employers:
Being an Employer to a Personal Assistant
Courses for PAs:
Moving and assisting – level 2 | First Aid - Level 2 | Food Hygiene - level 1 | Safeguarding adults - Level 2 | Care Certificate | Autism Awareness
User led organisation 5: Spectrum CIL
Address: Unity 12, 9-19 Rose Road, Southampton SO14 6TE
☏ 0238 033 0982 | ✉ info@spectrumcil.co.uk | www.spectrumcil.co.uk
Courses:
PA Employer Training for new employers | PA training
User led organisation 6: Surrey Independent Living Council (SILC)
Address: Astolat, Coniers Way, Burpham, Guildford, Surrey GU4 7HL
☏ 01483 458 111 | ✉ admin@surreyilc.org.uk | www.surreyilc.org.uk
Courses:
'Good Boss' training | PA Get Together | Care Certificate
Midlands
User led organisation one: Disability Direct: Blue Sky Brokers
Address: 20 Royal Scot Road, Pride Park, Derby, DE24 8AJ
☏ 01332 299449 | ✉ info@disabilitydirect.com | www.disabilitydirect.com
Courses:
IE Training | PA pre-employment training | Boundaries | Training Employment Law | Disability awareness | Hygiene safety training for employers and PAs
User led organisation 2: Dudley CIL
☏ 0798 951 5771 | ✉ info@dudleycil.uk | www.dudleycil.uk
Courses:
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
North West
User led organisation 1: Disability Positive (previously known as Cheshire CIL)
Address: Sension House, Denton Drive, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 7LU
☏ 01606 331 853 | ✉ office@cheshirecil.org | www.cheshirecil.org
Courses:
For employers this may include topics such as:
Supervising staff, stress management, effective communication, interpersonal skills, building self – confidence, conflict / dispute management, assertiveness, performance management, boundaries / expectations, time management, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and selection, induction, dealing with change, employment law roles and responsibilities, data protection training updated with GDPR changes.
For PAs this might include accredited topics such as:
Moving & handling, physio & massage, food hygiene, first aid, managing medication, managing behaviour that may be considered challenging, physical intervention, infection control, safeguarding, British sign language, Makaton, learning disabilities training, dementia awareness, disability awareness, information technology, health and safety, mental health training.
Online courses for IEs and PAs are available including the following subjects:
condition specific awareness, an introduction to food hygiene and safety, awareness of alcohol and substance misuse, care certificate, end of life care, equality and diversity, fire safety, preventing slips, trips and falls in the workplace, resilience & managing stress, safe handling of medicines.
User led organisation 2: Embrace Wigan and Leigh
Address: 81 Ribble Road, Platt Bridge, Wigan, WN2 5EG
☏ 01942 233 323 | ✉ info@embracewiganandleigh.org.uk | www.embracewiganandleigh.org.uk
Courses:
PA induction Training | Bespoke one to one training for IEs
User led organisation 3: Kaleidoscope Brokerage
Address: No.2 Longfield, 1st Floor, 462 Bury New Road, Prestwich M25 1AX
☏ 0161 804 8178 | ✉ admin@kaleidoscopebrokerage.org.uk | www.kaleidoscopebrokerage.org.uk
Courses:
Starting right for IEs | Autism Awareness for IEs and PAs | First aid at work | Moving and handling
User led organisation 4: Knowsley Disability concern
Address: 263a Tarbock Road, Huyton, Merseyside L36 0SD
☏ 0151 480 4090 | ✉ andy.gilbert@kdc.org.uk | www.kdc.org.uk
Courses:
Moving & Handling Risk Assessment & Plan | Moving and Handling People | Sensory Disability Awareness | Emergency First Aid | E-learning courses
South West
User led organisation 1: disAbility Cornwall & Isles of Scilly
Address: Units 1G/H, Guildford Road Industrial Estate, Guildford Road, Hayle, Cornwall TR27 4QZ
☏ 01736 759500 | ✉ info@disabilitycornwall.org.uk | www.disabilitycornwall.org.uk
Courses:
Emergency First Aid | Food Hygiene | Handling & Moving | Health & Safety in the home and community | Introduction to Autism | Safeguarding
User led organisation 2: WECIL
Address: The Vassall Centre, Gill Avenue, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 2QQ
☏ 0117 9479911 | ✉ hello@wecil.co.uk | www.wecil.co.uk
Courses:
Foundation Disability Equality Training | HR your responsibilities as an employer
User led organisation 3: Wiltshire CIL
Address: 11 Couch Lane, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 1EB
☏ 0300 1233 442 | ✉ info@wiltshirecil.org.uk | www.wiltshirecil.org.uk
Courses:
Employers Information Session - Rights and Responsibilities | Care Certificate | Autism Awareness | Emergency First Aid | Health and Safety | Infection Control | Positive Communication | Safeguarding | Understanding and working with Dementia | Working with behaviour that challenges
Yorkshire, Humber and North East
User led organisation 1: Active Independence
Address: c/o Unit 37, Moorgate Crofts Business Centre, South Grove, Rotherham, South Yorkshire S60 2DH
☏ 07917 607730 | ✉ info@activeindependence.org | www.activeindependence.org
Courses:
Being an Individual Employer | Personal assistants
User led organisation 2: Darlington Association on Disability
Address: Unit 1N-P Enterprise House, Valley Street, Darlington, DL1 1GY
☏ 01325 489999 | ✉ mail@darlingtondisability.org | www.darlingtondisability.org
Courses:
Introduction to Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) | Makaton | Personal Image Confidence | Understanding Neurodevelopment in a person centred way | Visual Impairment Awareness | First Aid | Disability Equality | Wellbeing and Stress Resilience | Just Life | How to be a Good Employer | How to be a Good PA | Rescue Medication | Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
User led organisation 3: Disability Sheffield Centre for Independent Living
Address: The Circle, 33 Rockingham Lane Sheffield S1 4FW
☏ 0114 253 6750 | ✉ info@disabilitysheffield.org.uk | www.disabilitysheffield.org.uk
Courses:
Autism awareness | Dignity in Care | Disability Equality Training | Eating and Swallowing | Emergency First Aid at Work | Food Safety level 1 | Infection control | Moving and Handling People | Medication administration and management | Mental Health awareness | Promoting effective communication & relationships | Safeguarding adults | Safe restraint practice | Rights and Responsibilities of being an IE | Person centred practice | Makaton | Individual Employer workshops
User led organisation 4: Leeds CIL
Address: Cartelli House, 2 Arthur Street, Stanningley, Leeds LS28 6JY
☏ 0113 231 1125 | ✉ info@leedscil.org.uk | www.leedscil.org.uk
Courses:
Autism & Asperger’s Awareness | C'mon Let's Get Cooking! | E-learning courses | Emergency First Aid at Work | Employers Essentials Briefing | Epilepsy Awareness | Getting the Best from Your PA | Intensive Interaction | Moving & Handling | Managing behaviour that may be considered challenging | PA Essentials
Organisations that have previously accessed the funding have used it to deliver a range of training courses and qualifications. You can use the case studies below to get ideas about the types of training individual employers and PAs find useful, and tips to help you arrange, advertise and deliver training.