Transcript Finding a Place to Live

We Can Work It Out
Northamptonshire Learning Disability
Partnership Board
Andy Horwood
29th March 2012
Valuing Employment Now says
• The Big Goal
• By 2025 we want more
people with learning
disabilities to have a job.
We want these jobs to be
16 hours a week. At the
moment only a very small
number of people with
learning disabilities have
a job.
The Employment Plan - 1
• We said
• More young people will leave
school or college and get a paid
job or voluntary work
We did...
• We talked with Further Education
colleges to ask them to keep a list of
where young people go when they
finish their Essential Skills courses.
• This will tell us how many people are
getting a job or voluntary work
• We asked Connexions to start keeping
a list of employers who are good at
working with disabled young people
• We are working with Leicester to have
Single Assessment process. This
means that young people will only
have to have one assessment that
everybody can look at.
• The single assessment is the work we
are doing as we are part of a
Government Pathfinder project.
• The assessment should be ready in the
Summer of this year
• One assessment should mean that
young people’s ideas and hopes about
work will be known by everybody.
• Inspire Me which is a national Mencap
project is being run in local schools.
• Friars school
• Isebrook SEN college
• Northgate school (sixth form only).
• This will help young people think about
what they want to do in the future about
work and jobs.
The Employment Plan - 2
• We said
• 5 more people will use their personal budget to buy
employment support or to set up a business
We did
• Worked with Care Management and
3 people who wanted and needed
support to get work or work skills
• We have talked about the kinds of
things the people wanted to achieve.
• Some of the things people wanted
were:
• Finding out about money and
benefits
• Help with learning how to use
buses
• Training and support in a job
• We have used the Partnership
Board money to give people
Personal Budgets to do this
• This work has only just started so
we cannot tell you at the moment if
these things were achieved but the
We Can Work It Out group will
check.
• We hope to do some more of this,
using the Partnership Board money
to make it happen.
The Employment Plan - 3
• We said
• 40 more staff will have had Training in Systematic
Instruction (TSI) to help them learn new skills. TSI is a
way of helping people to learn new skills
• We have only run one course for 12
people.
• The course was in February 2012
and we are waiting to hear what
people thought of it.
• We had to work hard to fill the
places and so we will not be putting
on any more courses
• 40 people won’t be trained
The Employment Plan - 4
• We said
• There will be a “pathway” for
employment that is written down. This
will tell people what should happen to
help them get a job. There will also be
better information to make sure that
people understand the pathway
We did
• We have had 4 meetings and have
got all of the information we need
for a “Benefits Pathway “and an
‘Employment pathway’
• The pathways will be written and
drawn soon and will be sent to a
mix of people to check if they are
OK
• Leicestershire have also been
working on this so we will look at
their work too
• Northamptonshire were part of a
government project last year to
help people get jobs. It was called
Jobs First.
• We have been talking to Remploy
and the Kings College in London
to help them write a report about
Jobs First and how well it has
done to help people get jobs.
• When the report is finished we
will put it on the Partnership
Board website
The Employment Plan - 5
• We said
• 2 more public organisations like councils and NHS will
have easy read information and forms to help people
found out and apply for jobs
We did
• Northampton Borough Council
and Northamptonshire County
Council are looking at ‘job
carving’
• Job carving can be used to
change a job so that it is
suitable for a particular worker
• Kettering General Hospital are also
hoping to have some jobs that are
for people with a learning disability
to apply for and they will be
advertised soon.
• They are changing their job
descriptions and forms so it easier
for people to apply for the jobs
• The Partnership Board has also
brought together different ideas
about Learning Disability
awareness training
• We now have one pack that can
be used by everybody to help run
this training in different places
• Elaine Cummins has run a train
the trainers course for this
• There are people with a learning
disability and others who know
how to use the pack.
• The pack can be changed so it
works for whoever you are
training.
• This should help more people in
public organisations feel good
about supporting a worker with
learning disability
• Public organisations in
Northamptonshire also have a new
website where they advertise their
jobs
https://www.everyroadleadstous
.co.uk
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• Any questions?
• Your ideas......
• We would like to know your ideas
so could you please talk in groups
and tell us:
1. How can we better prepare young
people (and their families) for the
world of work?
2. What would help you to get a job?
•
We will ask each group to feedback 2
ideas.
Thank you