2022-2023 Annual report Area of work 1

We gave support to many people with a learning disability in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

We worked hard to do that during Covid-19 and after it.

Our support services help people to do important things like:

• Go shopping and cook
• Get a job
• Meet friends and do new things

It has been hard to get and keep enough staff for our support services.

This is a problem for many organisations at the moment.

We are working hard to keep giving people really good support.

For example, we are trying hard to get more support workers.

But we need the government to change things as well.

For example, we want to make sure that support workers are paid more.

We are asking more people every year about different parts of their lives.

Like health and relationships .

This is so we can support people to make the changes they want.

We have supported many people with a learning disability to get work or learn important skills for work.

More people than before got a job after our support.

We gave training to some companies to help them know more about people with a learning disability.

We have some projects to give children and young people with a learning disability and their families the support they need.

That includes supporting children and young people to learn new things and meet new people.

That will help children and young people to get a good start in life and do well later on.