Workshop: Valued in Public: Employing people with a learning disability

2nd October 2008, 9.30am - 4.30pm, Bristol

This event provides you with the knowledge and tools to successfully attract, recruit and employ people with a learning disability in your organisation.

Many of our public sector members have learnt that with some simple adjustments to the workplace, people with a learning disability can prove to be talented employees that make a real contribution to their organisation. However, people with a learning disability are still the largest group of disabled people who are unemployed.

We are running these events with the Care Services Improvement Partnership's initiative, Valuing People Support Team, a government plan to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities. This event will be run using individuals from EFD, senior HR practitioners and experts in supported employment of people with a learning disability.

Why attend?

This event enables you to:

• Discuss with other employers the challenges faced by organisations when trying to attract, appoint and recruit people with a learning disability
• Learn from employers who have successfully appointed somebody with a learning disability and individuals who are in employment
• Return to work with some real proposals for change and actions for your HR manager, line manager and job broker.

 

Who should attend?

This action learning event is open to public sector members only. Each attending employer needs to bring three participants to the day:

• An HR manager
• A recruiting line manager
• A job broker (we can help supply one if you do not already use one).

This event is free to EFD members. Please note that this is a public sector only event.