Supported employment

NDTi Insights - Commissioning of employment support

Publisher:

NDTi

Topics:

Supported employment and Commissioning

Type:

Guidance

This publication summarises the learning from work undertaken by NDTi around supporting people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems into paid work. Conclusions include that there is:

* An overall weakness in the planning and commissioning processes
* Limited understanding amongst many commissioners of the evidence base around what works
* Inadequate actions to expand the market for employment supports
* A failure to link employment supports to the growth of individual budgets.

http://www.ndti.org.uk

NDTi Insights (October 2011)

Our policy platform

Publisher:

BASE

Topics:

BASE, Welfare reform, BASE, Welfare reform, BASE, Welfare reform, Supported employment and Strategy

Type:

Policy document

This document brings together our policy aims for the disability and employment sector. The document was compiled in March 2010 by the National Executive Committee.

Our policy platform

Valuing Employment Now

Publisher:

Valuing People Now and Dept of Health

Topics:

Welfare reform, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Welfare reform, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Welfare reform, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Welfare reform, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Welfare reform, Learning disabilities, Dept of Health, Welfare reform, Dept of Health, Learning disabilities, Welfare reform, Supported employment and Strategy

Type:

Policy document

Learning disability employment policy in England was led by the Valuing Employment Now (VEN) Team until it was disbanded in April 2011. Employment policy is now led by the Valuing People Now team. Only 6.4% of people with a significant disability are in paid employment in England (2010). Valuing Employment Now was published in June 2009 and is the main cross-Government policy document for England.

Valuing Employment Now

BASE members win Adult Learner's Week awards

Submitted by Huw on Fri, 10/05/2013 - 15:15

Supported employment

Our congratulations go to three BASE member organisations who have each won regional awards at the Adult Learners' Week Awards.

LSIS FE cluster case studies published

Submitted by Huw on Mon, 29/04/2013 - 10:08

The Excellence Gateway has published 14 case studies based on work undertaken through the LSIS cluster groups. These include 2 case studies, centred on employment, from Blueberry Academy and City College Norwich's supported employment service, MINT.

NDTi interim report on local authority commissioning of supported employment

Submitted by Huw on Wed, 13/03/2013 - 15:36

NDTi has published interim findings from research into the cost effectiveness of local authority and NHS investment in employment supports for people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems.

The initial key findings include that:
* After a period of increased spend, investment in supporting people into paid work appears to have declined in 2012/13
* Many commissioners do not have access to the data they need on services they commission to ensure they are achieving best value for money

Investment in Employment Support for Disabled People

Publisher:

NDTi

Topics:

Local authorities, Finance, Commissioning and Supported employment

Type:

Research

This NDTi research looks at the cost effectiveness of local authority and NHS investment in employment supports for people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems.

Interim report (March 2013)

Report summary

Work Foundation report into Schizophrenia and employment

Submitted by Huw on Mon, 11/02/2013 - 11:10

This report, published by the Work Foundation, looks at the employment experience of people who have schizophrenia.

Working with Schizophrenia

Publisher:

Work Foundation

Topics:

Mental health and Supported employment

Type:

Best practice and Report

This report, published by the Work Foundation, looks at the employment experience of people who have schizophrenia.

Working with Schizophrenia

Disability Employment Strategy Consultation

The Government is about to announce a consultation on developing a new national disability employment strategy. BASE intends to submit proposals to the consultation and we're looking for your comments and suggestions. The strategy will cover a wide range of issues from transition to career development. Initially, we've focused on the commissioning of specialist employment support for the future and we'd like to hear your thoughts.

Disability employment strategy: discussion paper