Contact

Maureen Pasmore, Service Manager
Supported Employment Team
Brighton & Hove City Council
Castleham Hove, Knoll Business Centre
Old Shoreham Road
Hove, BN3 7GS
Tel: 01273 296090

maureen.pasmore@brighton-hove.gov.uk

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Work & Skills Sub Group

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What we do
The Get a Job session we had
Learning Disabilities Together Network
Learning Disability Development Fund
Sub Group membership

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.

With the help of the Supported Employment Team, we keep track of how many people with learning disabilities are in work or voluntary work. We tell the Learning Disability Partnership Board and the council about those numbers. We help the council and the Partnership Board set targets to get more people into work.

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

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.

The Learning Disability Together Network is an exciting new venture, funded by the Learning Disability Development Fund, and being developed by a partnership between Care Co-ops and Impetus.

The 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.

For more information please call Claire Smith on 01273 865 300

Or e-mail claire.smith@careco-ops.org.uk

Learning Disability Development Fund

This year (from April 2010 to March 2011) our area of work has been given £17,680 from the Partnership Board's Learning Disability Development Fund. We will use the money to fund these two projects.

Here is the report from last year's project: 2009-10 - Learning Disability Together Network

Here are the reports from the previous year's projects:

Sub Group Membership

Sub Group Chair and Representative to Partnership Board:

Sub Group Members:

Membership of the group will initially be restricted to people who are engaged with supporting or providing employment or skills development opportunities in the city and be made up of people from the Voluntary and Community sector and the Public sector.

Organisations - Initially this is likely to focus on representatives from organisations that currently have a remit to work with people with learning disabilities. It is expected that representatives are at a level where they can make decisions on behalf of their organisation.

Individuals – Speak Out are unable to support the group with representation but people with learning disabilities who are interested in this area will be invited to join. Advice will be taken regarding the correct route to involve carers on sub groups.

Employers – It is hoped that a public sector employer will agree to be a member of the group.

Funding bodies – JCP and LSC will be invited to attend and will be included in the minutes