Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Leonard Cheshire advertise for rehab workers at less than the Living Wage

This advert for a rehabilitation worker demonstrates how Leonard Cheshire underpay their staff. It’s for a rehabilitation worker in a specialist acquired brain injury (ABI) unit. Think head injuries from motorbike accidents, severe strokes and so on. Pretty specialist and full on work, in my view. The responsibilities include giving out medication, handling challenging behaviour,…

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Pissing Off A Paulley

I went on a little rail jaunt today. As some people will know, I have been not doing too well recently and I needed this to go well. I was doing this fantastic rail tour – plus the trip from Wetherby and back. 5:20am set off… This rail tour requires an unusual ticket: the Ffestiniog…

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Leonard Cheshire Disability doesn’t care about carers’ subsistence wages

I raised in blogs passim that Clare Pelham, Chief Executive of Leonard Cheshire Disability (salary: £150k+) had this to say in the Huff 9 months ago: At the very least we should celebrate care as a wonderful career choice with great training; and nothing less than a living-wage should be acceptable. The Eye picked up…

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