Mencap’s vision is a future where people with a learning disability are receiving the right support to access and stay in work.
We want employers to know that people with a learning disability make good workers when supported properly.
We want people with a learning disability to have real jobs in the open labour market, with regular hours, and to be paid at the same rate as everyone else.
Employment
Employment means having a job.
could be a few hours a week or full-time.
What we’re asking for
- Improve the
transition
Transition means changing from one thing to another. Transition sometimes means things like when you change from having children's
social care
Social care means the services that give care and support to people who need it.
to adult social care.
from school and college into training,
work experience
Work
experience
Experience is when you have learned or tried something before.
is when you try out a job to help you learn new skills.
, apprenticeships and employment for young people with a learning disability. - Ensure effective employment support is there to enable all people with a learning disability to look for and stay in work.
- Empower employers with the
knowledge
Knowledge is knowing a lot about something.
to recruit and support people with a learning disability.
Employment - the numbers
- 6% of adults with a learning disability known to their local authority in England are in paid work (HSCIC 2015)
- Only 1% of Apprentices declared a moderate learning disability in 2012/13
- 17% of all adults with a learning disability in England are in paid work (Emerson and Hatton 2008)
- 74% of people aged 16 to 64 in the general population in England are in paid work (ONS 2016b).
