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14 Sep 09 Posted by Julia Lindley-Baker

This cabinet office strategy outlines intentions to raise the employment rate so that 48% of people with moderate and severe learning disabilities (LD) would be in work. The strategy stresses that this should be real work of at least 16 hours a week. The strategy commits government departments to a number of things including:

• 400 jobs across the Department for Work and Pensions and Jobcentre Plus for people with LD.

•Travel training for those young people who need it. A best practice website will also be launched.

•The Foundation Learning Tier (FLT) now known as Foundation Learning will be flexible enough to fund supported employment placements.

•A communication strategy designed to promote the business benefits to employers.

•The new Audit Careers Service and Skills Account will be fully accessible.

•Personal budgets will be flexible enough to pay for job coaching.


This strategy recognises the lowest rates of employment in the country. how to grow the number of quality job coaches.
The strategy recognises that people with LD have one of the lowest rates of employment in the country. http://tinyurl.com/nef7j5 (Skill Newsletter)
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