I've gotten help from a man involved with an advocacy company to do with people who have disabilities, and he told me if I cannot gain flexible hours from support agencies, that I should look into hiring or employing a personal helper, or helpers.

Basically, I'd be like a "boss" and pay them to ferry me around and do things with me, since I have anxiety issues and not all NHS based caregivers can work flexible hours.

For example, if an agency only gave you support with males only from 1 to 4 PM and they could not switch the hours around to better suit me, like if I needed to attend a certain event at a time outwith those hours and badly required help, then they're not ideally going to suit what you require them for. So this is where this idea came in.

However, does anybody know much about them? It's a new one on me, really.