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An employment project as a route to social inclusion for people with learning difficulties?
- Authors:
- GOSLING Vashti, COTTERILL Lesley
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(7), December 2000, pp.1001-1018.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Government policy to reduce social exclusion focuses on increasing employment opportunities and incentives, especially for disadvantaged groups. This article discusses the findings of an evaluation of a project in the North West of England for people with learning difficulties, which sought to create opportunities for paid and/or integrated employment. The findings suggest that this goal can be undermined by factors such as the isolation of social care services from employers and the disinclination of service organisations to include users, carers and staff in the development of new service approaches. Social welfare policies may also fail to enable providers to translate the rhetoric of social inclusion into a reality. Discusses some of the obstacles preventing people with learning difficulties from inclusion into mainstream employment, by considering their impact upon the achievements of the North West project.