Are you an individual employer with Personal Assistants (PAs)? Recent evidence suggests that recruitment and retention of PAs is proving difficult up and down the country. TLAP, with the Local Government Association and other partners, has developed an on-line survey to give us all a better understanding of this. This is the opportunity to tell us about how the changing situation over the last couple of years has affected you.
The survey was designed by people who use PAs and is an important opportunity to get a clearer picture of the challenges faced by employers and to better understand what might be needed to improve the situation moving into 2022. Please help in spreading the word so that as many people as possible have the opportunity to share their views using the survey
This survey is now live with a closing date of Sunday 23rd January 2022. The weblink to the survey can be found here or you can cut and paste into a browser here – https://research.local.gov.uk/jfe/form/SV_5hlpAkUlzT1zUsm
For more info, support and alternative ways to contribute, please note;
- People completing the survey can look at the questions before they undertake it. You can look at a pdf here. (opens new window) People can move back and forwards in the survey, but once ‘submit’ is pressed, the feedback can’t be changed. The survey is written in easy read/plain English which should work for most people. The survey should also work reasonably well on screen readers, tablets and phones but anyone experiencing technical problems can email liz.greer@local.gov.uk for support. It’s fine to do the survey with different people more than once from the same computer (IP address).
- For anyone who finds the survey too challenging to complete, In Control have kindly offered the alternative of a one-hour online discussion meeting on the 5th January to talk through the survey questions, and discuss the challenges people are facing in recruiting and retaining PAs. There are two meetings – please should book a place in advance using the links below:
Wednesday 5th January 2022 at 1.00
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAuce6urDwsE9QFtfml8AhRch8mTIPZ3_We (opens new window)
Wednesday 5th January 2022 at 6.00pm
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcOqqrzgoGtXBRBU89EtMBzjTWRY_5vO5 (opens new window)
- Finally, if anyone is keen to participate but can’t do the survey, or join one of the In Control meetings, Liz Greer and Martin Walker from TLAP will be happy to support alternative arrangements to enable participation, so please feel free to get in touch at liz.greer@local.gov.uk or martin.waker@tlap.org.uk .
