Things to do
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1 - Working and Learning
2 - Leisure clubs and having fun
3 - Transport and getting around
- Planning a journey
- Finding out more
1 - Working and Learning
There have been a lot of new Government publications to do with employment recently.
Here are just some of the new publications:
Click here for the supported employment resources hub (Valuing Employment Now)
Click here for the Financial Case for Supported Employment
Click here for Increasing the Number of People with Learning Disabilities In Employment Guidance
Click here for the Valuing People Now - Employment Evaluations
Click here for examples from the Jobs First Pilots about Funding Employment from Individual Budgets
Lots of people with a learning disability want a job, just like anyone else. Having a job lets you earn money so that you can have more choice and control over your life. You can make new friends too.
To get a job you will probably need some training. We have written a plan to make sure that people with learning disabilities have a better chance of getting a job and the training they need.
There are people who can help you to find a job or training. Click on the links below to find out more.
On 24 June 2009 the Government said it wants lots more people with learning disabilities to have real jobs.
They want the jobs to be at least 16 hours per week
They have written a plan to make that happen.
The plan is called ‘Valuing Employment Now - real jobs for people with learning disabilities'.
To see the plan click here.
You can see some films at this link as well.
Click here to see the Pathways to Getting a Life - this includes a Pathway to Paid Work
A 'pathway' is another name for 'route'.
Moving into Work.
Click here to find out about free guidance
Six free information sheets to help support people with learning difficulties moving from learning to training and employment.
Medway is a Getting a Life project site - click here for information about the Getting a Life project and it's national learning so far
The Medway Getting a Life project has been part of the team that has helped develop a career pathway to paid employment for adults with a learning disability. Click here to see the
Pathway to Paid Employment for Adults with Learning Disabilities
Click here to see a useful template that you use to support someone to think about paid employment
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2 - Leisure clubs and having fun
Medway has its own Sports Directory which lists all Medway sports clubs and gives the name of a person in each sports club that people can contact with any individual enquries linked to disability and the sports club.
To see the Medway sports directory click here
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3 - Transport and Getting Around
The White Paper “Valuing People” Says:
"Access to transport is essential to enable people with learning disabilities to lead full and purposeful lives. However, they currently face many obstacles using public or private transport. Transport staff and operators may not understand their needs and people may lack the necessary support and training to become independent travellers"
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- Planning a Journey
There are websites where you can plan your journeys.
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See this new website to help you get around:
www.gettingaround.info -
Traveline for journeys by train, bus or coach.
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National Rail Enquiries for journeys by train.
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- Finding out More
There are lots of websites where you can find out more about transport for people with disabilities. We’ve listed some of them for you.
Making it happen!
Meeting notes
Useful reading 