Disabled employee training scheme to be scrapped?

30th June 2010

A Loughborough-based recycling scheme that provides training and work for disabled employees and people with mental health conditions such as autism and Asperger's syndrome is likely to be scrapped in a bid to save money.

The Charnwood Recycling Project - set up in 2006 by Leicestershire County Council's social services - employs 30 adults and costs £100,000 to run but now the authority is attempting to save £66 million by 2014 and it is possible this could be a casualty, the Leicester Mercury reports.

Max Hunt, county councillor and leader of County Hall's Labour opposition group, called it an "easy target for Tory cuts".

"They are taking away from people who do not have a voice," he continued, while Alyson Hunter, manager at the Glebe House Project - which also supports disabled employees - described the situation as "desperately sad".

This comes after MP for Worcester Robin Walker stated that there is not enough support for disabled employees.

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