Knowledge Base

The knowledge base is a free source of information both for supported employment and for disability / employment support generally. In addition to contributions from BASE and its member organisations, the knowledge base also acts as an archive for initiatives such as Valuing People Now.

Listed below are the most recent knowledge base contents that meet your search criteria. To find content, use the filters to select and add topics, a type of content, a publishing source, or a year of publication. Note that many topics require you to select a subtopic from a list which appears after you select the main topic. You can clear your search by clicking Reset.

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Format: 2025

Mencap report on apprenticeships: Access All Areas

Publisher: 
Charities
Topics: 
Apprenticeships, Transition
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Report

Access All Areas makes a series of recommendations about how to make apprenticeships more accessible to people with a learning disability.

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Job carving and job crafting

Publisher: 
Commissions & Regulatory Organisations
Topics: 
Job matching
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Guidance

Job carving and job crafting can be effective strategies to overcome the challenges of labour market integration of people facing multiple barriers, in particular the long-term unemployed. This paper gives an overview of these strategies, presents promising practices and sets out recommendations for future measures, also in the context of ESF interventions.

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Experiences of Young People with SEND on their journey towards employment

Publisher: 
Charities
Topics: 
Recruitment
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Report

This report by Eliph Hadert, an Amaze Intern, captures the views and experiences of 10 young people from Brighton. The young people include some who are still students, some who are undertaking work experience and some who are employed.  

The report identifies some of the barriers faced and what helped people on their journey to employment. 

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The IPS Learning Community: A Longitudinal Study of Sustainment, Quality, and Outcome

Publisher: 
Policy & research organisations
Topics: 
Individual Placement & Support (IPS)
Year of Publication: 
2016
Type: 
Research, Web link

The American Psychiatric Association has published the results of a longitudinal survey into the provision of IPS services in the USA.

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Strategies for the Implementation of the UN CRPD (Vienna Declaration)

Publisher: 
Supported Employment Associations
Topics: 
Strategy
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Report

The Vienna Declaration sets out a number of recommendations aimed at the European Union, member states and providers of employment support.

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Employer Guide to employing people with a learning disability

Publisher: 
Charities
Topics: 
Recruitment, Learning disabilities
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Guidance

The Foundation for People with a Learning Disability has produced an employers guide to employing people with a learning disability. The guide, produced in conjunction with Keith Bates and Sixteen, offers tips and case studies featuring the work of a range of large employers.

Accompanying it is a short guide to working with job coaches.

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Plans that Work: Employment outcomes for people with learning disabilities

Publisher: 
Policy & research organisations
Topics: 
Learning disabilities, Transition
Year of Publication: 
2019
Type: 
Report

This short paper, from the IPPR  considers whether the additional support that is provided to children and young people with learning disabilities helps them properly prepare for adulthood, and considers how it might have to change to better achieve this.

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An Employer's Guide to Supported Employment

Publisher: 
Charities
Topics: 
Employers, Supported employment, Recruitment
Year of Publication: 
2018
Type: 
Guidance

An Employer's guide to Supported Employment, published by the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, is aimed at Line Managers, Human Resources Leads & others responsible for recruitment within the

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Supported self-employment toolkit

Publisher: 
Supported Employment Associations
Topics: 
Self employment
Year of Publication: 
2018
Type: 
Guidance

A toolkit for supported self-employment has been produced by the European Union of Supported Employment (EUSE) and offers guidance in how to support people to start their own business through the method of supported employment. Nevertheless, there are some significant differences between both forms of support.

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Neurodiversity in the Workplace

Publisher: 
Other organisations
Topics: 
Autism
Year of Publication: 
2018
Type: 
Guidance

This toolkit has been produced by neurodivergent members of GMB staff in consultation with neurodivergent GMB members.

The aim of this document is to provide information and advice that can be used to help make workplaces more inclusive for neurodivergent workers.

For reasons of length, it does not contain a detailed introduction to individual neurodivergent conditions. Separate guidance notes are being produced (although the difficulties of generalising about neurodiversity should be stressed at all points).

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