Among recent trends in the community rehabilitation of people with learning disabilities,
supported employment has emerged as a promising option. The efficient transition …

LABOr is a project financed by the Leonardo Da Vinci programme of the European Union
and run by the European Association of Service Providers for People with Disabilities …

Employment has grown to be an important option for people with learning disabilities.
Consumer surveys regularly report people's desire to work and employment is more …

The percentage of working age adults with learning disabilities who are in paid employment
is low compared with the general population. There may also be an underlying expectation …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a synthesis of current and previous
government policies and strategies, in relation to people with learning disabilities and …

This review was commissioned to inform the cross-government strategy on increasing
employment for people with learning disabilities: Valuing Employment Now. This strategy …

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 …

In the UK, the numbers of people with a learning disability who have a job are very low. In
2016 in England around 6% 1 of people “known to social services” are in paid employment …

Government policy is to achieve greater social inclusion for people with disabilities and it
has promoted paid employment as one way of achieving this. Their approach to getting …

In 2000, there were an estimated 6.6 million 'longterm'disabled people of working age in the
UK (Woolnough 2001). People with learning disabilities account for a small but significant …