BUPAS Users

Getting Support

Support worker assisting visually impaired man

If you are using the Personal Assistance Scheme, or wish to use its services, you will have a disability or learning difficulty, for example you may:

Be blind or visually impaired
Be deaf or hearing impaired
Have mobility difficulties
Be a wheelchair user
Be dyslexic
Have mental health difficulties
Have an unseen disability or medical condition such as diabetes
Or asthma
Or you may have a disability or learning difficulty not referred to above

the list is not meant to be definitive. BUPAS staff will do their best to provide whatever support you have been assessed for on an individual basis.

If you are not yet using the scheme, you can make an appointment with a disability adviser to find out about getting support by using the links below in the 'Getting Support' section.

Also take a tour of a powerpoint presentation 'Induction to the Personal Assistance Scheme for Users' .

Also read comments from support workers and users of the service from surveys. This includes negative and positive opinions.

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Search BUPAS site for:
The site is designed to take account of accessibility issues for people with disabilities

Any contact you make will be treated in complete confidence.

Tel: 0121 359 3611 ext. 5432 (24 hour answerphone), Fax: 0121 359 0985

Sian Howarth,0121 359 3621 ext. 5433, Email: S.L.Howarth@aston.ac.uk

Keren Mousley,0121 359 3621 ext. 5434, Email: K.A.Mousley@aston.ac.uk

Fiona Troughton, Email: F.Troughton@aston.ac.uk

Tel: 0121 414 5130, Fax: 0121 414 5133, Minicom: 0121 414 6445

Sue Green – Disability Co-ordinator,
Sue Onens – Learning Support Co-ordinator (dyslexia specialist)

Email: disability@bham.ac.uk

Website: http://www.sscs.bham.ac.uk

Tel: 0121 331 5128 - Disability Advisers/Dyslexia support/Minicom

Eric Neil, Disability Adviser, Email: eric.neil@uce.ac.uk

Marcia Graham, Disability Adviser, Email: marcia.graham@uce.ac.uk

Dawn Loizou, Assistant Disability Adviser, , Email: dawn.loizou@uce.ac.uk

David Maynard, Dyslexia Support Co-ordinator, Email: david.maynard@uce.ac.uk

Maureen Devine, PAS Co-ordinator, Tel: 0121 331 6265,
Email: maureen.devine@uce.ac.uk

Liz Collins, PAS training programme manager, Tel: 0121 331 7757, Email: liz.collins@uce.ac.uk

Or Student Services Reception/24 hour answerphone Tel: 0121 331 5588, Fax: 0121 331 6569, Email: disability@uce.ac.uk

Website: http://www.uce.ac.uk/web2/services/disabled.html

If you are already a scheme user or just want to find out more about your entitlement and responsibilities, such as

What do I do if my support worker doesn't turn up?
What exactly can I ask my support worker to do?
How is my support paid for?

Then read the User's Guide to The PAS (PDF)

Please contact us if you have any difficulties accessing this site (liz.collins@uce.ac.uk).

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