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Access to Work = Deny individuals any support!

Coogybear

Just heard from Access to Work that a course billed by the NAS as able to be paid for by the fund, is not allowed as it is a group course!

NAS STATES:-Our two-day course is priced at £380 + VAT. Funding for the course can be applied for through the Government's Access to Work programme, which supports adults with disabilities in the workplace.

What is the fund for, for goodness sake?!!!!!!!

So far I've had brickwalls at every turn with Access To Work.

Once again, the parents are left to grapple alone with the child, with no guidence and little support. Given I have two on the spectrum, it's just too overwhelming.

So weary, so tired of fighting for the basics to allow my son the simple privilege of contributing to society. Does the govenment want him to just sit at home and draw unemployment benefit?

Dispicable!!!!!!

Parents

  • What to do is

    1) Accept the money from access to work, although that will cause more difficulties in the long run. It also means that your son is in the system and you can ask for more later. I was first approved for 5 hours support a week, but have now had 10 hours a week approved. The 5 hours started on 1st November. The 10 hours have been approved from 1st December.

    2) You will have to find a support worker. It may be that an agency near you can provide someone. If not you will have to find someone. In that case you have to go to (3)

    (3) As a last resort you will have to find someone. But this someone will have to be an employee, which means employer liability insurance. Then you have to work out payroll. This means registering as an employer with HMRC and figuring out how PAYE works and how the HMRC real time system works. It is a steep learning curve, but not impossible. HMRC does have some useful videos to help. Now I have done it, I can help too.

    (3) is what I have had to do, but I am very happy with my support work who I met at the gym I go to. As long as we get customers, the future is looking much brighter.

    If you want to contact me directly, try e.guest@leedsbeckett.ac.uk I expect this address to stop working anytime so if you do want to contact me, don't delay.

    Where do you live?

    Regarding finding someone, ask around as best you can. I found a good person more through luck than anything else.

    My support worker does not do payroll but she is helping with other admin and most importantly contacting people and figuring out social networking.

    If access to work continue to cause problems, try contacting your MP. Mine made all the difference.

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  • What to do is

    1) Accept the money from access to work, although that will cause more difficulties in the long run. It also means that your son is in the system and you can ask for more later. I was first approved for 5 hours support a week, but have now had 10 hours a week approved. The 5 hours started on 1st November. The 10 hours have been approved from 1st December.

    2) You will have to find a support worker. It may be that an agency near you can provide someone. If not you will have to find someone. In that case you have to go to (3)

    (3) As a last resort you will have to find someone. But this someone will have to be an employee, which means employer liability insurance. Then you have to work out payroll. This means registering as an employer with HMRC and figuring out how PAYE works and how the HMRC real time system works. It is a steep learning curve, but not impossible. HMRC does have some useful videos to help. Now I have done it, I can help too.

    (3) is what I have had to do, but I am very happy with my support work who I met at the gym I go to. As long as we get customers, the future is looking much brighter.

    If you want to contact me directly, try e.guest@leedsbeckett.ac.uk I expect this address to stop working anytime so if you do want to contact me, don't delay.

    Where do you live?

    Regarding finding someone, ask around as best you can. I found a good person more through luck than anything else.

    My support worker does not do payroll but she is helping with other admin and most importantly contacting people and figuring out social networking.

    If access to work continue to cause problems, try contacting your MP. Mine made all the difference.

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