Experiences of recruiting private caregivers/PA’s

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  • smokey18
    smokey18 Scope Member Posts: 36 Contributor

    that’s awful-I can totally understand your frustration I too struggle enormously at the beginning, eventually having to settle for Homecare m, absolutely nightmare, as i said before. I can only afford 4 hours a week meaning 3 days a week I have to do the best I can as well as in the morning. With Homecare I had 30 minutes in each morning and 45 minutes each evening. So I clearly can empathise with you.

  • wobblyone
    wobblyone Community member Posts: 28 Connected

    @smokey18 I saw a post from someone who wanted to set up their own home care service. I’m not sure where she is or how it’s working out but it sounds like an interesting venture. Hopefully it’ll do well and catch on.

  • wobblyone
    wobblyone Community member Posts: 28 Connected

    @smokey18 my last post was meant to say that’s sounds very frustrating and I hope things improve in future with more disability lead services or business models.

  • Claire293
    Claire293 Community member, CP Network Posts: 18 Connected
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/937014#Comment_937014

    Thanks for sharing your experiences. I can’t cope with care agencies either because of the same reason, it’s so unnecessarily stressful.

    It’s a shame you can’t get Direct Payments. I completely understand what you mean about the target market for most services, they don’t cater for disabled people like us, it seems as though our needs are too specialist. I wish it was easier too, good care is so important for quality of life. I hope at some point you are able to achieve your goals such as go on holiday, have a social life etc they are similar if not the same as any other non disabled person!

    Sorry you had such a bad experience hiring your own PA, I completely understand how that impact your choice to hire another person in the future.

    Ditto.

  • smokey18
    smokey18 Scope Member Posts: 36 Contributor

    wow - my rate is £11.50 an hour

  • wobblyone
    wobblyone Community member Posts: 28 Connected

    @smokey18 I think the cost of private and agency PAs is higher. If it was £11 ph I’d be able to get 8 hours for the cost of 3 or four hours. My partner has just reassured me it’s okay. We don’t live together and it’s early days still so I don’t want to be a burden but I guess it helps that someone cares.

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