Mencap report on apprenticeships: Access All Areas

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

Between January 2019 and March 2019, Mencap conducted three workshops with about 25 stakeholders ranging from employers to providers, colleges and special schools to educational psychologists. The focus in these workshops was on people with a learning disability and/or difficulty. Participants in the workshops set out to explore what more needs to be done to ensure that apprenticeships are truly accessible to people with a learning disability and/or difficulty. In addition, Mencap also spoke to a number of people with a learning disability to get an insight into their experiences.

The research also looked at the accessibility of Local Offer websites across a sample of local authority areas and examined the quality of the website content.