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Self Directed Support Scotland

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Are you a Personal Assistant? Take the Scottish Personal Assistant Workforce survey 2025 now! Survey closes 9am Monday 5 May and an image of a woman pointing
1 April 2025

Scottish Personal Assistant Workforce Survey 2025

Calling all Personal Assistants! We need your help to understand more about the Personal Assistant workforce in Scotland. The Scottish Personal Assistant Workforce Survey 2025 is now live, and we…

Personal Assistant Recruitment Toolkit
18 March 2025

PA Recruitment toolkit published

A new toolkit has been published which it is hoped will help Personal Assistant Employers, and the organisations which support them, with recruiting PAs. The toolkit, which has been developed…

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12 March 2025

Increase in the minimum hourly rate for PAs from April 2025

The Scottish Government has announced that the minimum rate of pay for Personal Assistants will increase to £12.60 an hour from April 2025. The increase is part of funding agreed…

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