Welcome to the Buddy Scheme Parent Consultation

The purpose of the RBG Buddy Scheme is to provide appropriate aged support to children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

The service should act as an in-between for the child/young person and personal assistant (PA) or support worker. The organisation will not employ directly any of the PAs but will offer a creative way for parents/carers/ young people to choose and connect with an age and interest-appropriate PA.

For the purposes of this questionnaire the term personal assistant refers to a support worker.

Examples of the support that the personal assistant can offer:
  • Accessing services in the community such as leisure and social activities
  • Correspondence and paperwork
  • Attending doctor and hospital appointment
  • Escorting to community events, day trips and outings
  • Help you with medication
  • Work, training and educational activities
  • Mobility in your home and in the wider community
  • Accessing necessary facilities and making use of public transport
  • Supporting family carers when they need respite or break from their caring role

This short survey aims to find out how you would like the Buddy Scheme to work.

We need the views of as many parents as possible so that we can get a really good picture of how you want the scheme to operate.

This information will be used by the Royal Borough of Greenwich when they commission the Buddy Scheme.

The survey will take 5 minutes to complete or longer if you'd like to make more detailed comments. Thanks for giving us your views.

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* 1. Would you feel comfortable with using the internet to recruit a personal assistant?

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* 2. Have you used a personal assistant before?

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* 3. How would you rate the personal qualities listed below when recruiting a personal assistant? Please tick all that apply.

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* 4. What skills do you think are important for a personal assistant to have?

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* 5. Would you want your personal assistant to help with planning activities?

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* 6. Would you want your personal assistant to help with creating friendship groups and accessing the community?

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* 7. What would you most like your personal assistant to help with?

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* 8. Is it important to you that a personal assistant has access to a vehicle and can drive or will it be appropriate for your PA to use public transport when working?

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* 9. What are your main concerns, if any, with employing a personal assistant?

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* 10. When would you like help from a personal assistant? (Please tick all that apply)

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* 11. How would you prefer to pay for a matching service?

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* 12. What would encourage you use a PA finder scheme such as the one described above? Please tick all the features that are important to you.

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* 13.  Would you attend a training session around how to manage personal assistants?

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* 14. If you answered yes to question 10 what would be the best time of day for the training session?  Please tick all that apply.

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* 15. What aspect of employing a PA would you most like help with?

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* 16.  Is there anything else that you would like to add?

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