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Vision 21 celebrates 21 years of training
- Author:
- CULLEN Fiona
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 94, Winter 2009, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
This article describes Vision 21, which provides training and meaningful work experience for students with learning disabilities in South East Wales. Formed 21 years ago, Vision 21 has 16 different social enterprise training environments providing 372 training spaces per week. Focusing on providing training opportunities that enable people to reach their full potential, the training activities include horticulture, catering, woodwork, ICT, pottery, animal care, retail skills, creative choices and card making. The author describes how Vision 21 remains innovative and responsive in the training it gives students, keeping up with an ever changing world. The article outlines new developments within Vision 21, looks at the courses it offers, and describes how this year it has launched a new Annual Awards scheme as a way of recognising its achievements.
Pets Warehouse
- Author:
- WOOD Kate
- Journal article citation:
- Llais, 94, Winter 2009, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Learning Disability Wales
In this article the author describes the creation and development of Pets Warehouse, a social firm committed to creating employment and training opportunities for the disabled and disadvantaged. A social firm is one committed to using profits to put back into the community, and ideally 25 to 50% of the workforce will have some recognised disability or disadvantage. The author Kate Wood, who is the Managing Director, suggests that a social firm should aim to empower people to be the best they can – commanding equal pay, equal rights, and to progress and improve themselves whatever the background. The author outlines how the directors were brought together, how funding was arranged to get the project running, how the project uses supported employment services, and briefly touches upon training opportunities given to members of staff.
Enterprising spirits
- Author:
- BATES Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Learning Disability Today, 10(4), May 2010, pp.14-16.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
It is estimated that just 7.5% of adults with learning disabilities are in paid employment, yet many of these people want to work. The cross government employment strategy Valuing Employment Now, published in 2009, has set ambitious targets to radically improve the opportunities for, and increase the numbers in, work for people with learning difficulties. This article describes the ‘In Business’ project, which help to support people with learning disabilities in setting themselves up as self-employed as a realistic route to employment. The project worked with 4 primary sites across England, each supporting up to 8 people in establishing their own small business. The key features of the project were that: each entrepreneur was supported to develop their own business based on their interests and abilities; the In Business project manager advised paid support staff, families and entrepreneurs about setting up business and navigating the benefits and tax systems as a self-employed person; staff members and families were engaged and trained in order to support the entrepreneur; and small business advisers and mainstream employment services were engaged in the project from its early stages. This article outlines the innovation involved, the business development provided, and the service delivery change as a result of supporting people with learning disabilities become entrepreneurs.
Making social inclusion real for people with learning disabilities in North Lanarkshire
- Author:
- MACKAY Duncan
- Journal article citation:
- Soundtrack, 30, September 2004, pp.5-6.
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
States that people with learning disabilities have been among the most excluded. Describes examples of supported employment, supported living, day opportunities, education and empowerment. Gives 3 examples of people helped in North Lanarkshire.
Give us paid work and stop labelling us
- Author:
- WILLIAMS Val
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.2.99, 1999, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author interviews member of the Bristol Self-Advocacy Research Group to find out what they felt about services.
Supported living and supported employment: opening up opportunities to people with learning difficulties
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The Government has stated that it seeks to create a society based on inclusion, independence and empowerment. In particular, it has emphasised the importance of taking up paid employment, but it is not yet certain to what extent people with learning difficulties will be part of this in practice. This review of JRF research identifies the barriers facing people with learning difficulties and suggests possible solutions which would make inclusion of this highly marginalised group more likely.
Helping people achieve their full potential: improving specialist disability employment services: public consultation
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 88p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Central proposals in the consultation include developing and enhancing the role of Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentre Plus so that each individual gets support that is tailored to their needs to help them achieve their employment goals; and moving away from separate programmes of support such as the Job Introduction Scheme, Work Preparation and WORKSTEP towards a single integrated programme which provides a more personalised employment service for disabled people. The proposals in the consultation complement other major reforms by the DWP aimed at supporting those who need the most help to find, retain and progress in work; including the modernisation of Remploy, Pathways to Work and a Flexible New Deal all of which will offer additional specialist help for people with greater support needs.
Supported employment for people with learning difficulties: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Supported employment is a service with learning difficulties, which enables them to find and hold down real jobs by providing the support and training they need at work. A two-year study of six supported employment agencies operating in Liverpool.