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Jobs and Work
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What is Jobs and Work?
This bit of the website is about people with learning disabilities and work.
Valuing Emploment Now is a strategy about making sure that people with learning disabilities get the support they need to get and keep a paid job.
Valuing Employment Now Easy Read
Valuing Employment Now Delivery Plan
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What does Valuing People say?
That more people will learning disabilities should get the chance to do all kinds of work, if possible getting paid.
Objective : To enable more people with learning disabilities to participate in all forms of employment, wherever possible in paid work, and to make a valued contribution to the world of work.
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.
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Links and Resources
This report is a good way to start doing something about job opportunities for people with learning disabilities
Improving Work Opportunities for People with a Learning Disability
Easy Read - Working Opportunities Oct 06
Easier Read Version of Working Opportunities Report
Your Rights at Work
The Disability Rights Commission has produced 'Your Rights at Work' - This link takes you to the Disability Rights Commission Website where
you can download this publication as a PDF file.
The Disabled Workers Co-operative is a website where you can tell people what skills you have and try to get a job that way. Visit the website at www.disabledworkers.org.uk