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Employment Sub Group
September 05
Who are we?
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Sue Graham – Learning Curve
Sarah Mepham – Mencap
Kirsty Armitage – Connexions
Peter Lonergan – Disability West
Jon Cooke – Learning Curve
Alison Turrell – Stirling Rd Centre
Mayte Rodriguez – Social Inclusion Project –
PCT
Alison Sawyer – Service User
Involving other people
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We also want to invite people from
other groups to some meetings to talk
about how we can help each other
What are our aims?
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More paid jobs for
people with a learning
disability
Work experience and
voluntary work to give
people skills and help
them choose what sort
of work they would like
to do
Our Action Plan
4 Areas
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Training for staff
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Transition
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Finding more jobs
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Help to stay in work
What is happening?
Training For Staff
Support group for staff is
starting in October
We have made links with staff
working in other boroughs
Some staff have had benefits
training
Staff will be able to do an
employment qualification
What is happening?
Transition
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Connexions are providing information
and advice to help young people find
work
Transition information day planned for
October
 Transition workshops at St Anne’s
school
 Information for carers will be available
at the new carers centre
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What is happening?
Transition
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Connexions and the Job Opportunities
Team are going to work together to
get in touch with employers to find
more jobs
What is happening?
Finding more jobs
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Working with other agencies to
contact employers
Learning Curve now have more staff
to support people into work
Made links with other groups to make
sure employment is included in their
plans
Economic
Development Plan
What is happening?
Finding more jobs
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4 people with a learning
disability have recently
started working at the PCT
Stirling Rd plan to create 2
paid jobs for people with a
learning disability at Carlton
Rd
People with a learning
disability will get paid for
interviewing staff
What is happening?
Finding more jobs
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Ealing Consortium have
recently employed 5 people
2 receptionists
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They want to make the Door to
Door project into a Social Firm
They plan to offer more people
paid work and they have created
a supported employment pay
scale
3 travel buddies
What is happening?
Finding more jobs
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We want to identify 2 people with
high support needs who want to
work
This will be done through person
centred planning
We will apply for money from the
Independent Living Fund to pay for
a worker to support them in the
workplace
ILF
Help to stay in work
What is happening?
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We have started to find out
who is already working
We are setting up a support
group for people in work
Buddy scheme to support
people in work – Learning
Curve and Stirling Rd
What is going well?
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37 people in paid
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45 people in
employment
unpaid employment
or work experience
What is not going well?
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There are probably more
people who have jobs that
we don’t know about
Nobody with high support
needs has paid or unpaid
work
We need more staff or
volunteers to support people
while they are in work
Recommendations for the
Partnership Board to consider
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More people need to
know about the
Independent Living
Fund and how to apply
for it
Is there funding to
employ a worker to
find jobs in Ealing
Council and set up a
buddy scheme?
ILF
How can the Partnership
Board help?
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Put pressure on
managers and
directors working for
Ealing to employ
people with a learning
disability
Some members of the
board might know
employers who are
willing to offer jobs or
work experience