Supported employment

Publisher: 
Central Government, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Learning disabilities, Social care, Policy, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2008
Type: 
Report

Valuing People Now is the Government's three-year big plan to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities and their families. It covers all aspects of life, including health, housing, getting a paid job, personalisation, transition, advocacy, hate crime and relationships. All people with a learning disability are people first with the right to lead their lives like any others, with the same opportunities and responsibilities, with the same dignity and respect. This strategy is inclusive of those groups who are least often heard and most often excluded. These groups include

Publisher: 
Central Government
Topics: 
Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2010
Type: 
Report

A Report for the cross-Government learning disability employment strategy team undertaken by Dr Stephen Beyer and Dr Carol Robinson

Publisher: 
Policy & research organisations, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2011
Type: 
Report

This paper revisits the aspirations of the authors for supported employment development from 1997 against a changing policy context with the introduction of Valuing People and Valuing People Now. It reviews developments in employment policy, innovation, the framework for funding supported employment and changes in the level of employment for people with learning disabilities since 1997.

Publisher: 
Policy & research organisations, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Health & Wellbeing, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2011
Type: 
Research

This is a research report which examines the role of supported employment in promoting the health of people with learning disabilities. Published March 2011.

Publisher: 
Central Government, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Learning disabilities, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2011
Type: 
Report

This document presents the financial case for supported employment.

Publisher: 
Central Government, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Learning disabilities, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2011
Type: 
Best practice

This is a case study produced by the Valuing People Now team.

Publisher: 
Supported Employment Associations
Topics: 
Supply chain contracting, Quality, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2010
Type: 
Framework, Guidance

The European Union of Supported Employment (EUSE) has produced a toolkit for providers and other interested parties. This toolkit consists of a range of Position Papers and How to Guides and has been designed to increase the knowledge and skills of professionals responsible for the delivery of Supported Employment services. The toolkit is primarily aimed at service providers for use in their staff development programmes. The 11 position papers cover a range of topics including, client engagement, vocational profiling, employer contact, in-work support, and career development.

Publisher: 
Central Government, Valuing People Now
Topics: 
Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2010
Type: 
Report

In Valuing Employment Now, the Government committed to publish standards for job coaching to drive improvements in supported employment provision, to ensure that more people with learning disabilities, especially people with moderate to severe learning disabilities, get and keep jobs. This paper discusses what makes good supported employment. The document looks at the definition, guiding principles and stages of supported employment.

Publisher: 
Central Government
Topics: 
Strategy, Learning disabilities, Supported employment
Year of Publication: 
2006
Type: 
Report

This report to Ministers is based on the experience of a Working Group drawn from people with a learning disability, local authorities, the voluntary sector and including some managers of supported employment schemes. The group met in 2002-2004 though the report wasn't published until 2006.

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