Transcript Valuing Employment Now

Valuing Employment Now
Real jobs for people with learning
disabilities
Thursday 10th September 2009
Anne Williams
National Director for Learning Disabilities
Department of Health
Valuing Employment Now The big messages
• People with learning disabilities have missed
out on the progress that has been made for
other disabled people
• People should assume from a young age
that they will get a job one day. Work
shouldn’t be optional
• ‘Work’ means real, paid jobs that meet
genuine employer need, or self employment,
and full time if possible
Valuing Employment Now The big messages
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People with profound and complex
disabilities should not be excluded from
work
We need to use existing money
differently
We need to raise expectations and create
culture change
We need strong leadership to carry this
work forward
Valuing Employment Now The Goal
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We want to increase radically the number of
people with moderate and severe learning
disabilities in employment by 2025
As many people as possible should be
working 16 hours a week
We want to ‘close the gap’
This means 45,000 more people in work in
England by 2025
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
• Changing attitudes
• Promote the fact that people can work and
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have a right to work
Parental awareness campaign
Workforce training
Demonstration sites
Promoting best practice
Public sector to employ people with
learning disabilities
Valuing Employment NowWhat needs to happen?
Joint working for individual employment
paths
• Strong partnership working
• Services and support brought together
around the individual
• Funding supports used creatively
• Transition plans promote employment
• Local Authorities ensure that college courses
lead to job outcomes
• Local Authorities commission supported
employment
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Work preparation at school and college
• Work experience at school to be strongly
promoted
• OFSTED review to consider changes to the
curriculum and assessment process
• Internships to provide entry to
Apprenticeships
• Job coaches to be funded under the
Foundation Learning Tier
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Personal budgets and social care
• DH to issue guidance to social care services
on person centred planning for employment
• Support broker sites will demonstrate how
personal budgets can be used for work
• Day centre resources can be released to
pay for supported employment
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
More high quality job coaching
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Quality standards for job coaching to be
published 2009
Strategy to grow the workforce of job
coaches in 2010
Access to Work will support work trials
DWP’s new disability employment
programme to deliver for people with
learning disabilities
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Clearing up confusion about benefits
• Accessible benefits communication
campaign
• Jobcentre Plus advisers to promote in-work
incentives
• Continual review of barriers to work in the
benefits system
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Promoting self employment
• Lessons from the East Midlands
Development Agency to be shared through
the Regional Development Agencies
• Valuing People regional leads to promote
self-employment advice and training
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Promoting the business case
• DWP to offer 400 employment opportunites
• DH, Cabinet Office and DCSF to recruit
people
• Guidance for government departments on
how to target people with learning
disabilities
• All public bodies to become exemplar
employers
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Transport to get to work
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Travel training to be accredited through the
FLT
Best practice in travel training to be
published
National Forum to be consulted on
Department for Transport policies
Partnership Boards to review support
available locally
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Where people live
• Residential care charges to be
reviewed
• Public consultation on housing benefit
reforms July 2009
• Strategies to reduce use of residential
care to consider employment
implications
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Including everyone
• Demonstration site at Kent University for
people with complex needs
• Screening tool for offenders with learning
disabilities
• Involvement of NAGLDE
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
People and families leading the way
• Partners in Policy Making
• Family Led Jobs
• Supporting carers back to work
• National Delivery Team posts for a carer
and self advocate
Valuing Employment Now –
What needs to happen?
Better information and checking progress
• Targets and milestones to be set in 2010
• Research on ‘enablers’ such as work
experience at school
• LDPBs and Regional Boards to set targets in
2010
Valuing Employment Now –
The delivery plan
• Cross – government National delivery team
based in Office of National Director in DH
• LDPBs will oversee and monitor local
delivery
• Deputy Regional Directors and Valuing
People programme leads will develop
regional targets and make sure there is
capacity to implement Valuing Employment
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