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Supporting your PA to gain the skills they need

Supporting your personal assistant to gain the skills they need, will help individual employers to develop their PAs.

International recruitment toolkit - March 2024

International recruitment toolkit for social care

Quality standards

Quality Assured Care Learning Service

Disclosure and Barring Service advice note PAs Feb 2021

Disclosure and Barring Service advice notes. This advice note explains more about DBS checks.

Disclosure and Barring Service advice note PAs Feb 2021

Disclosure and Barring Service advice notes. This advice note explains more about DBS checks.

Quality framework for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training

QACLS

Recommendations for CQC providers

This guide explains what CQC expects to see around your managers and leaders, recruitment and retention, induction and ongoing learning and development. It highlights Skills for Care's products and resources that can help.

Hear how Philip Barton does induction for new PAs

Hear from Philip, an individual employer who leads his own induction.

Local authorities support for individual employers

This report outlines the most recent findings from an ongoing study which sets out to understand the support available to people employing personal assistants (PAs) in England.

Disclosure and Barring Service advice note

This advice note is to offer guidance to local authorities, NHS organisations, support organisations (including user-led organisations (ULOs)) and individual employers of personal assistants, about who can request, assess and share the outcome of a DBS check.