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Stepping stones: a fun-filled CD to help people with learning disabilities ...
- Authors:
- ANTIMATTER, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- CD ROM, booklet
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
A CD to help people with learning disabilities towards employment, this easy-to-use programme is led by cartoon character Jo. He talks directly to the user, guiding them to create a useable CV and think about the right kind of employment for them. With Jo, the user will: learn how to look for work/go job hunting; develop time management skills; create their personal diary showing activities, free time and time available for work; find organisations that can help to find work and training; and find examples of people and projects that have succeeded in work and training.
Access to work blocked as disabled people remain unaware of initiative
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.8.03, 2003, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how many employers and disabled people are still unaware of the government's Access to Work scheme. Highlights the lack of publicity given to the scheme
The rights of spring
- Author:
- HUTCHINSON Gunn Strand
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.5.03, 2003, p.43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For the past 3 years people with learning difficulties in a town in Norway have marched on May Day to protest against their lack of employment rights. Looks at the reasons for the march.
Making the jump into employment
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, February 2003, p.25.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Many adults with learning difficulties want to work. Looks at the NIACE 'Making the Jump' project, funded by the Department of Health, which focused on the best way to support adults with learning difficulties moving from vocational education and training to employment
Users' views on supported employment and social inclusion: a qualitative study of 30 people in work
- Authors:
- WISTOW Richard, SCHNEIDER Justine
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(4), December 2003, pp.166-174.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Outlines the findings from interviews exploring the perceptions of people with learning difficulties in relation to work and employment support. Examines their experiences in seeking employment, getting a job, being in work and about the support they received. The authors also make inferences from the data about the nature and extent of social inclusion associated with being in work. The research was funded by the Department of Health in response to the Valuing People policy.
'Real jobs': 'learning difficulties' and supported employment
- Author:
- WILSON Alastair
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.99-115.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Supported employment is now regarded as a major vehicle for enabling people with 'learning difficulties' to enter employment. The purpose of this paper is to use the evidence provided by three case studies of people with 'learning difficulties' who have participated in supported employment to critically examine its fundamental premises. The paper argues that the influences of normalisation theory and the US model of supported employment have combined in the UK to form a variant of supported employment which, in pursuing the concept of 'real job', fails to adequately address the consequences of impairment.
Does having been on a 'section' reduce your chances of getting a job?
- Authors:
- FENTON John, O'HANLON Dee, ALLEN Danny
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 27(5), May 2003, pp.177-178.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This article aims to ascertain employers' attitudes to interviewing and hiring job applicants with a history of mental illness and, in particular, to assess the potential effect on job prospects for applicants with a history of admission under the Mental Health Act 1983. A postal tick-box questionnaire was sent to 174 companies; there was a 32% response rate. The main factors influencing employers' hiring decisions were medical opinion regarding an applicant's fitness to work and their employment and sickness records. In about three-quarters of small companies and half of large companies, questions about mental illness are simply never asked. Approved social workers have no reason to caution people assessed under the Mental Health Act 1983 that being detained could harm their job prospects.
Sweeping all before them
- Author:
- MILLER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.1.03, 2003, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a London based project which provides training and employment for people with learning difficulties, whilst also providing help to older people in the community with their cleaning and gardening.
Assessing state vocational rehabilitation performance in serving individuals with disability
- Authors:
- LEWIS Darrell, JOHNSON David R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 28(1), March 2003, pp.24-39.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
All social agencies that deliver services to individuals with disability need to periodically examine whether their goals and services are addressing the needs of their clients and consumers. This paper reviews the use of multi-attribute utility (MAU) analysis as a methodology for evaluating the goals and services of a midwestern state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency in the USA. The MAU methodology is used in this state agency example to: identify and clarify the VR agency's goals and services; engage stakeholders in the determination of measurable attributes of these goals; and illustrate the value of using MAU evaluation results for programme improvement and future evaluation comparisons. The article is intended to support agency administrative staff in designing comprehensive evaluations of programme goals and services, and in strategic planning and programme improvement efforts.
Future aspirations of students with severe learning disabilities and of their parents on leaving special schooling
- Authors:
- SMYTH Marisa, McCONKEY Roy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 31(1), 2003, pp.54-59.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The majority of school-leavers over 2 years from two special schools in Belfast were individually interviewed as were their parents. The almost unanimous wish of the young people to have a job was not matched by the parents, although nearly half of the parents did express the wish that they would have at least part-time work. The majority of young people and the parents envisaged living with the family albeit for different reasons. However, there was a strong emphasis on fostering the young person's independence and living with friends. Consequently, only a minority of families mentioned their son or daughter moving into traditional residential care settings. It is argued that it is not just the availability of services that need to increase in order to meet the aspirations of the young people and their parents; major changes are also needed in their form and function.