Looking for Easy Read? Scroll ahead to the bottom of this page Quality checkers are a new initiative we started to introduce in September last year. We invited you and the people you support to get involved in helping us…
Shared Lives Week 2024 happened on 24th-28th June and we celebrated with the PSS Shared Lives Carer Awards. Two of our Shared Lives carers, Georgina and Andrew, took home the trophy for Transformational Care after the judging panel heard the…
Yesterday, for Shared Lives Week 2024, we held a live virtual awards ceremony to announce the winners of our Shared Lives Carer Awards. The hour-long ceremony was co-hosted by (our resident Ant & Dec) chief exec, Lesley Dixon and director…
It’s Shared Lives Week and as well as the wonderful celebrations going on across the country, the day has come for the annual PSS Shared Lives Carer Awards! As the first ever provider and creator of Shared Lives we’re…
Our Shared Lives carers say their work feels more like a lifestyle than a job. It’s a big part of who they are, but not all of who they are. Adrian, from Grimsby, decided to become a carer over two years…
Shared Lives carer and super volunteer, Paul This week is Volunteers’ Week. Volunteers were the foundation of Shared Lives when we first invented to model of care in 1978. PSS pioneered a service where these older people would go and…
Janet Finch-Saunders pays visit ‘wonderful’ home of Shared Lives carer, Janet Smith Member of Welsh Parliament, Janet Finch-Saunders, has paid a special visit to the home of PSS Shared Lives carer, Janet Smith, who cares for two people in her…
Craig, Beth and Mark share their story Shared Lives is full of brilliant stories playing out in the homes of normal people day in and day out. One of those story featured in The Daily Mirror this week! Craig, Beth…
James lives with Shared Lives carer, Adrian, in Grimsby. When James first came to Adrian a little over a year ago he was incredibly shy and quiet, had zero self-confidence and struggled with low self-esteem. Since James moved in, Adrian has worked…
Bidding a fond farewell to PSS’s chief exec, Lesley Dixon Lesley Dixon chief exec of PSS. Picture by Gareth Jones We wanted to make sure that you as a PSS Shared Lives carer heard the news about PSS chief exec,…
