Contact

Karen Kingsland, Supported Employment Manager
Supported Employment Team
Brighton & Hove City Council
Tel: 01273 296090

karen.kingsland@brighton-hove.gov.uk

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Meeting Notes

Work Plans

Work & Skills Sub Group

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What we do
The Get a Job session we had
Learning Disabilities Together Network
Share!
Learning Disability Development Fund
Sub Group membership
Useful documents and web sites

What we do

This group leads the work to make Valuing Employment Now happen in Brighton & Hove.

We want people to know what opportunities there are for people with learning disabilities to gain employment. We want there to be more opportunities than there are now. We work with people with learning disabilities and, where relevant, carers. We ask them what helps them and we tell them about help they can have. We do this so that more people can get employment.

We want people to have more opportunities to improve their skills. This includes work skills and work experience and qualifications. Having better skills and getting work go together.

We help organisations work together so people with learning disabilities can have more opportunities to get into work. We work to get more money for organisations that help people get into work or get work skills.

We think getting into employment is like a path. There are steps along the way. The steps are:

Expect that people will want to work
Good advice and information supporting person centred planning
Individual support helping to address issues or barriers (for example:a travel buddy or help with personal hygiene, money management or basic skills)
Access to relevant vocational learning, work experience and voluntary work
Access to qualifications
Paid employment
Work based learning and support and career planning
Progressing in your work

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We had a Get a Job Session

Get a Job session flier

We had an information session about getting a job.

It was in March of 2010.

About 50 people came to hear about getting a job. Some people with learning disabilties talked about the jobs they have and how they got them.

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The Learning Disability Together Network aims to bring together organisations, people, and communities from all sectors and backgrounds to share best practice, ideas and information in order to develop and support greater choice, control, access and opportunities for people with learning disabilities living in Brighton & Hove.

Learning Disability Together Network meeting:
Wednesday 6 July 2011
1:00 to 4:00 at St Georges Community Centre Hall, St George's Church, St George's Road, Brighton, BN2 1ED

We are pleased to be joined at the event by St John’s College, who will lead a session around issues relating to transitions for young people with a learning disability. Grace Eyre will be leading a session around peer-to-peer. There will also be an update from Libby at the CVSF regarding the website and a short performance piece by Jimmy; an ex service user from Arden House.

Many thanks to St John’s College for providing a meeting space and what will no doubt be a splendid lunch, so do arrive promptly to get your fill!

We look forward to seeing you.

The timetable for the event is as follows:
1.00-1.45pm    Lunch and informal networking
1.45-2pm         Neil Holmes,Care Co-ops: Introduction, with Libby from the CVSF giving an update regarding the website
2.00-2.35pm    St John's College: Session which focuses on issues relating to transitions for young people with a learning disability
2.35-2.45pm    Short Performance: Jimmy, an ex service user from Arden House
2.45-3.00pm    Break
3.00-3.30pm    Grace Eyre: Peer-to-peer for people with a learning disability
3.30-4.00pm    Feedback for the next event and informal networking

To reserve your place, please click toATTEND EVENT and book your place using the Eventbrite website.

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This is the last issue of Share! for a while as our funding has ended. We’re looking for sponsorship and applying for grants for future editions so if you have stories or news you’d like to share or if you’re interested in writing or being an editor for Share! Please email us:share@grace-eyre.org.

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Learning Disability Development Fund

In past years the Learning Disability Partnership Board has given money from the Learning Disability Development Fund to our area of work.

Here are reports from our 2010/11 projects:

Here is the report from the 2009/10 project: 2009-10 - Learning Disability Together Network

Here are the reports from the 2008/09 projects:

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Sub Group Membership

Sub Group Chair and Representative to Partnership Board:

Karen Kingsland, Supported Employment Manager
Supported Employment Team
Brighton & Hove City Council
Ground Floor Office
Mantell House, Lennox Street
Brighton, BN2 0HD
Tel: 01273 296090
karen.kingsland@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Sub Group Members:

Jenny Fensome (BHCC Supported Employment Team)
Neil Holmes (Care Co-ops)
Chris Bland (Grace Eyre Foundation)
Suzette Attwood (BHCC Voluntary Work Project)
Liz Hall (Carousel)
Jacqui Streeter (BHCC Day Options)
Diana Bernhardt (BHCC Lead Commissioner for Learning Disabilities)
Yvonne Elliott (City College)

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Useful documents and web sites:

Valuing Employment Now - easy read is the government's plan to help more people with moderate and severe learning disabilities get real jobs. Click Here to go to the Department of Health website to see all the Valuing Employment Now papers.

is a campaign funded by the Department for Education as part of the Valuing Employment Now strategy

the Community Interest Company Association is the representative body for all CICs in the UK

In December 2010 the Department for Work and Pensions asked Liz Sayce to look at the support that is given to disabled people who want to work. This was called a review. This booklet tells you what Liz Sayce found out and what she thinks needs to be done to make the system better. The full report is available at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/welfare-reform/specialist-disability-employment.

is a website about social enterprise awards but there is some information on the site about social enterprises in general

The se² partnership is the regional partnership of organisations and networks supporting the development and growth of social enterprise in the South East

Social Enterprise UK is the national body for social enterprise in the UK

Social Firms UK is the national support organisation for the development of the Social Firm sector in the UK

Ways Into Work This link is for the short film made by the Royal Borough of Windsor Maidenhead’s Ways Into Work team. It is good to show to potential employers.

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this page was last updated on: 2 September 2011