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The Reality

What can you expect?

• You get employees who are task orientated, committed and focused on their work (with the added bonus that they are more than likely not to take time off sick)
• Employing someone with a learning disability encourages diversity within the workplace
• You can access ongoing support from a specialist local support provider
• You can get support with detailed health and safety checks and risk assessments
• If you want it, organisations will seek to give you maximum publicity in various publications including local media
• The opportunity to give your business a Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) access audit
• The chance to network with other businesses who are already doing great things
• A chance to meet your corporate social responsibility commitments - doing something positive for people in your local community

What will it do for my business?

Often the problems businesses face in the early days of employment come down to a single factor;
If you have never worked before, how do you know what the dos and the don’ts are?

Sometimes we assume that people should know that. Local support organisations will work with the employer and the employee to iron out any difficulties and resolve any problems.

Sometimes things don’t work out. It is a fact of life and not an issue specific to people with learning disabilities. Local support organisations will try to ensure that things are brought to a close effectively, efficiently and amicably.