Useful Organisations
A list of organisations and contacts that might be useful:
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BASE, or the British Association of Supported Employment, is a membership organisation for supported employment agencies and supported businesses in the UK. This site gives a wide range of information and services to our members and others interested in supported employment. -
Dates-n-mates is a dating and friendship agency run by and for people with learning disabilities.
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Drummatik are a socially inclusive community drumming group who have performmed widely throughout Scotland at festivals, open days and community celebrations. They also have drumming workshops available. Drummatik aim to challenge the preconceptions and stereotypical ideas that society holds about people with a learning disability.
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This is a website that has health information that is easy to understand.
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The Employability in Scotland website provides a range of information, insights and pr actical examples which will be useful for funders of employability services, project/service managers from employability, regeneration, health and other related services as well as practitioners and frontline workers involved in an array of different services. -
ENABLE Scotland believes that people with learning disabilities should be valued as full and active members of the community. Among other things, they believe that people with learning disabilities, like everyone else, have the right to employment. ENABLE Scotland support young people and adults with learning disabilities to do this by providing community based services to help them attend work and enjoy meaningful participation in the community. -
A group of East Renfrewshire residents who have a learning disability and their parents who are working in partnership with East Renfrewshire Council’s Worker employability team and volunteers from the Enable Local Area Co-ordination (LAC) Reference Group in East Renfrewshire to improve the employability prospects for people with a learning disability. -
In Control supports local authorities in delivering self-directed support. Their website provides information on supported employment.
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A Scottish charity that works to promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland’s social services by enhancing the capacity and capability of the social services workforce to access and make use of knowledge and research for service innovation and improvement. -
Skills Development Scotland play a central role in ensuring Scotland's businesses have the capability to compete successfully both now and in the future.
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