Sheffield Centre For Independent Living

Sheffield Centre for Independent Living is working with Skills for Care to promote some resources that are available to support your role as an Individual Employer of Personal Assistants. These include a Personal Assistant Toolkit, Training resources for your staff, and On-line registration (NMDS-SC) to support you as an employer - this would also provide access to funding to help train and develop your staff

For more information:

• Individual Employer Bulletin

• SfC 'Offer' to Individual Employers

If you would like to register on NMDS-SC or to find out more please contact Emily Morton Tel:0114 2536750 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or download leaflet print out and return to Sheffield CIL at the FREEPOST address provided.

We recently held a number of successful meetings to review our policies and procedures in a newly formed Policies and Procedures sub group.This worked so well that we intend to form a number of additional sub groups over the coming weeks, specifically :- Quality Standards · Funding and Finance · Service & Organisational Development · Communication and Physical /Built Environment .Staff, volunteers and trustees will be attending the sub groups and we would like to invite our members to participate as well. If you are a Sheffield CIL member and want to put your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm to good use. If you are interested in attending a sub group or want to know more about the sub groups please contact our Chairperson, Sandy Marshall by e mailing Sandy at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You may be aware that our disability information service is delivered with the support of a small team of volunteers. Our volunteers are a great asset to the organisation and have been involved from the very start in shaping and delivering our information service.Three of our volunteers have recently moved into self employed and paid employment which is fantastic news for them and we wish them all the best for the future. It does mean that we are looking for new volunteers and we hope that you may consider volunteering with us yourself or you may know of someone who would be interested in this opportunity.We have developed three new role descriptions for volunteers

• Sheffield CIL Disability Information Service Volunteer
• Sheffield CIL Web and Social Networking Volunteer
• Sheffield CIL Community Network Volunteer

Please contact Val Bowen, Information Officer at Sheffield CIL on 0114 253 6748 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you are interested in applying or require any further information. We have also attached a testimonial from one of our volunteers which describes his volunteering experience at Sheffield CIL far better than we could. Thank you for your testimonial Steven and good luck in your new job.

Following our breaking news item about the government’s announcement that it is now not cutting Mobility Allowance for people living in residential homes a number of people have contacted Sheffield CIL to say well done to organisations and individuals in Sheffield for submitting a response to the Low Review including Sheffield’s Learning Disability Parliament who Irene Guest (MPP for Transport) who wrote an excellent letter to the Low Review and Sheffield LINk in a joint response with Partners for Inclusion/Sheffield Centre for Independent Living. Well done to everyone involved! Here is a message we received from Andrew Crooks from Sheffield LINk.