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Raising aspiration: widening participation in supported internships
- Authors:
- ALLOTT Susan, HICKS Tom
- Publishers:
- Remploy, Mencap
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Joint report by Mencap and Remploy which looks at the effectiveness of supported internships in providing a route into paid employment for young people with learning disabilities and special educational needs. Supported internships provide personalised study programmes based primarily at an employer’s premises, which include on-the-job training provided by expert job coaches. Job coaches provide support to employers, increasing their confidence of working with interns, and also provide support at the end of the internship for those young people not offered a paid job. The report also looks at some of the challenges of delivering and scaling up the provision of supported internships, which include employers not recognising supported internships as a model of good practice, lack of awareness of local authorities, and lack of long-term funding. It then puts forward proposals to help address these challenges. The report argues that supported internships could form a key part of Government aspirations to reduce the disability employment and calls for a cross-Government marketing campaign and a sustainable, ring-fenced funding stream to help agencies running and planning supported internships. (Edited publisher abstract)