Partner Employment Links
This part of the links section will keep you up-to-date with the latest news of our partners in the area of employment.
Arc Scotland
Issue 3 of Arc Scotland's magazine, Changing Perspectives, focused on employment. The contents included:
- The WorkRight Project from Mencap
- Best Practices in Supported Employment
- Valuing Employment Now - the main points
- Creative Solutions for unemployment in learning disabilities
- Starting your own business?
- Interview with April and Marie who work full-time managing a cafe, earning a real wage.
To read the magazine in full please click here...
Capability Scotland
Capability Scotland helps support people with disabilities into employment. They work closely in partnership with others and draw extensively on their own skills, resources and contacts to help clients enjoy new opportunities and eventually work successfully in their chosen occupation. To read their leaflet Employment Development Services please click here...
ENABLE Scotland
The ENABLE Scotland website has lots of useful information about employment and people with learning disabilities. Here are some links to these resources:
- Employment is for Everyone is a short leaflet about working and learning disability. To read it please click here...
- Transitions to Employment is a project that aims to help students with learning disabilities get a job. To read their leaflet please click here...
- To read ENABLE Scotland's Position Paper on Employment please click here...
- Enable have a new website called Make the move. It is aimed at young people with learning disabilities in Scotland and has lots of information about jobs and employment. You can visit the website here...