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.
What does Valuing People say will happen?
- New Government target to get more people with learning disabilities into work
- New Workstep Programme will help people with learning disabilities
- The Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment will look at links between supported employment and day services
- Job Brokers for the New Deal for Disabled People will get better at working with people with learning disabilities
- Disabled people starting work will not lose their Disability Living Allowance unfairly
- Learning Disability Partnership Boards to write local employment strategies by February 2003
- More employment opportunities in public services for people with learning disabilities
In Southampton we
- Are linked in to the City Employment plan
- We have a supported employment service called City Limits, which supports over a hundred people to have employment. The contact is ?
- The Partnership Board has called for an increase in the numbers of people employed by the City Council and Health organisations.
Websites
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Click here to find out more about help to get a job |
Job Guides from Valuing people website
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I can get a job (650 kb)
I can get a job is a step by step guide to how to get a job |
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I want to work (800 kb)
I want to work is a guide to work and benefits |
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Valued in Public (1 mb)
Valued in Public is a guide for bosses in public services about how to have more people with learning disabilities working for them |
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Valued in Public (easier to read) (710 kb)
This is an easier to read version of Valued in Public - a guide for bosses in public services about how to have more people with learning disabilities working for them |
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Southampton's employment plan |
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Strengthening the workforce (408 kb) |
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City Limits Working with you (320 kb) |