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From disability to ability: a pathway to equal employment of people with intellectual disabilities
- Author:
- DELMARTINO Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 75, Winter 2005, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
Describes the work of the LABOr project in improving the employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities across Europe. Outcomes of the project include a website, www.start-labour.org, which aims to support providers in fine-tuning their training and employment services.
I can get a job: a step-by-step guide to getting a job
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is thought that less than one in ten people with learning disabilities have jobs. People don't think people with learning disabilities can achieve, so they don't get training and help to find jobs. Helping people find jobs is not seen as important. The rules about benefits can mean that people lose out if they get jobs. It can be difficult to move from 'supported employment' into other paid jobs that people might want. The Government wants more people with learning disabilities to have jobs. This book is a step by step guide to how to get a job.
I want to work: a guide to benefits and work for people with a learning disability
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Valuing People Support Team
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is thought that less than one in ten people with learning disabilities have jobs. People don't think people with learning disabilities can achieve, so they don't get training and help to find jobs. Helping people find jobs is not seen as important. The rules about benefits can mean that people lose out if they get jobs. It can be difficult to move from 'supported employment' into other paid jobs that people might want. The Government wants more people with learning disabilities to have jobs.
Able to work: report of the National Employment Panel's Employers' Working Group on Disability
- Author:
- THOMPSON Mark
- Publisher:
- National Employment Panel
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 84p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The focus of this report is how to help as many disabled people as possible to fulfil their potential in the labour market. It sets out a clear vision of what the government wants to achieve and why it is so important. And it makes a wide range of recommendations, both for employers and for several different arms of Government, which will help to deliver that vision.
Provider focus: PentaHact
- Author:
- FREDERICK Cedric
- Journal article citation:
- Community Connecting, 1, Summer 2005, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Community Connecting
Describes the work of PentaHact. The service provides support to people with learning disabilities in north east London and East Anglia and runs a project 'Lifeworks Learn to Earn' which provides training and helps them find employment.
The education and employment of disabled young people
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Developing positive aspirations is a key factor in securing good educational and occupational outcomes, and an important component of autonomy. This study compared the aspirations of young disabled and non-disabled people, and examined the extent to which those aspirations were achieved.
Rights of people with intellectual disabilities: access to education and employment
- Author:
- OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE. EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program
- Publisher:
- Open Society Institute
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 200p.
- Place of publication:
- Budapest
Reports on the rights of people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. The report monitors the degree to which existing international standards and national legislation are heeded and applied. The report includes specific policy recommendations targeting both domestic and international decision-makers.
New deal for disabled people: an in-depth study of Job Broker service delivery
- Authors:
- LEWIS Jane, et al
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 241p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) was introduced in 1998 and 1999 as a series of pilots to help disabled people move into, or stay in, paid employment. The ‘national extension’ of NDDP, introduced in 2001, aims to support and test innovative ways of helping people on incapacity benefits move into sustainabe employment. NDDP services are delivered by a range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations known as ‘Job Brokers’. This report presents findings from the second wave of qualitative research carried out in late 2003/early 2004. This element of the research forms part of a larger programme aimed at providing the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) with a comprehensive evaluation of NDDP. The report of findings from Wave One of the qualitative work was published in 2003 (Corden et al.,). The overall aim of the qualitative research was to explore the organisation, operation and impacts of the Job Broker service from the perspective of key stakeholders, including users and providers of Job Broker services, and staff of Jobcentre Plus offices.
Workplace culture analysis where people with intellectual disabilities work: a case study approach
- Authors:
- FILLARY Rose, PERNICE Regina
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 30(3), September 2005, pp.176-180.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Research evidence suggests that investigation of workplace culture assists in enhancing social inclusion of and job retention by people with intellectual disability. This research explored the potential of using Hagner's (2000) Workplace Culture Survey to identify inclusive characteristics of eight New Zealand workplaces where people with intellectual disability were employed by surveying eight employers. Eight workers with intellectual disability and eight co-workers were surveyed to assess inclusion levels in the culture of these workplaces. The results indicated that four workplaces had a strong workplace culture. Co-workers were generally well included in the workplace culture, whereas only three of the workers with intellectual disability were included to a similar extent. Full-time employment enhanced inclusion levels. Workers with higher support needs appear to be less included. The use of Hagner's Workplace Culture Survey is helpful in identifying inclusive workplaces and inclusion levels of both workers with intellectual disability and co-workers.
Out of touch: local government and disabled people's employment needs
- Authors:
- PIGGOTT Linda, SAPEY Bob, WILENIUS Fred
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(6), October 2005, pp.599-611.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In autumn 2003 the authors contracted to undertake a study in two district council areas of ways in which they could meet their Local Public Service Agreement (LPSA) targets in respect of disabled people returning to work. The authors undertook a literature review of barriers to work, interviewed a number of people involved in working with unemployed people and a number of disabled people in these areas. All the employment organisations we had contact with were working to an individual model of disability and the need to change their orientation became the central recommendation of the first phase of this study. This was rejected by those funding the study. At the end of the first year none of the organisations active in this area was able to identify a single disabled person who had returned to work as a result of their help. We conclude that central government policies are doing little to change the perception of the employment needs of disabled people within local government.