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Access all areas: opening up apprenticeships and the world of work to people with a learning disability
- Author:
- MENCAP
- Publisher:
- Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 74
- Place of publication:
- London
This report makes recommendations to improve access to apprenticeships for people with a learning disability. The report is based on the findings of workshops conducted with a range of stakeholders such as employers, providers and special schools, to explore how apprenticeships could be made truly accessible to people with a learning disability. People with a learning disability were also consulted to get an insight into their experiences. The research also looks at the accessibility of Local Offer websites across a sample of local authority areas. Recommendations include the need for flexible entry requirements for apprenticeships to those with Education, Health and Care Plans and the development of accessible resources for people with a learning disability around apprenticeships and for government to explores what support and guidance apprenticeship providers need to better support learners with a learning disability and/or difficulty. (Edited publisher abstract)
Planning for disabled people in New Osbaldwick
- Authors:
- SHAW Virginia, BAGGLEY Mark, JARVIS Alison
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation,|York Publishing Services
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 23p.
- Place of publication:
- York
This report makes recommendations about the planning of New Osbaldwick in order to meet their needs. It argues that, taking an inclusive approach to all impairments, and using prevalence rates within the general population, assumptions can be made about the numbers of wheelchair users, people with learning difficulties and mental health problems and so on. This has implications for all aspects of life in New Osbaldwick – including buildings, information and community facilities.
Direct choices: what councils need to make direct payments happen for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The resource consists of information that councils will find helpful when seeking to enable people with learning disabilities to receive and use direct payments. It includes information on decision-making; on the management of a direct payment; on the provision of appropriate and accessible information; and on the support that people may need. It brings together existing information from a variety of sources, as well as using new information drawn directly from interviews with council direct payment staff, direct payment support groups and people currently using direct payments.
Housing options: developing autism services
- Authors:
- MOREY Nick, WOOLRYCH Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 5(3), August 2002, pp.10-17.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Housing options is an independent advisory service for people with learning difficulties, their families and housing and care providers. The organisation wanted to promote the development of opportunities for those with autism, to help growing up in their own home. A two year project was begun to review need, demand, and the range of existing services, to look at what services local authority providers and families want and to provide information an guidance to help with service development.