Seminars 10.30 - 1pm
Edinburgh Friday 5 June Dean of Guild Courtroom,
Council Chambers, High Street.
Hamilton Tuesday 9 June Volunteer Centre,
Montrose Crescent
Aberdeen Friday 12 June The Aberdeen Foyer,
Marywell Centre, Marywell Street
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Personal assistants and direct payments research goes
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Landmark research into the employment of Personal Assistants
(PAs) through Direct Payments is about to be launched through
a series of seminars across Scotland in June.
An interim report from the research by UNISON Social Work
Issues Group and the Scottish Personal Assistants Employers
Network (SPAEN) resulted in a series of recommendations
to provide better support and training for PAs, guidance
on good employment practices and funding for training.
“Now that the final report is ready to be published, UNISON
and SPAEN want to ensure that workers and employers are
fully briefed about the issues across Scotland”, said Stephen
Smellie, Chair of UNISON Scotland’s Social Work Issues Group.
So a series of seminars have been set up aimed at UNISON
members who work in the direct payments field (such as social
workers and Direct Payments Co-ordinators), people who receive
direct payments and are either employers of personal assistants
or are thinking of employing personal assistants, and personal
assistants themselves.
Stephen urged branches to get members and activists along
to the seminars and “make contact with any local disability
groups, employers and P.A.s and pass the invitation to them”.
The seminars, from 10.30 - 1pm are being held in:-
Edinburgh Friday 5 June Dean of Guild Courtroom,
Council Chambers, High Street.
Hamilton Tuesday 9 June Volunteer Centre, Montrose
Crescent
Aberdeen Friday 12 June The Aberdeen Foyer, Marywell
Centre, Marywell Street
The agenda at the seminars will include a presentation
on the research by Stephen Smellie UNISON and Peter Brawley
SPAEN. UNISON Legal Officer Suzanne Craig witl cover the
legal responsibilities of employers and the legal rights
of personal assistants and a speaker from SPAEN will cover
accessing advice for employers.
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