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Improving choice, control and outcomes for disabled people & Project SEARCH

Improving choice, control and outcomes for disabled people & Project SEARCH. Denise Bushay & Nick Campbell Office for Disability Issues. Overview. Aim of session:

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Improving choice, control and outcomes for disabled people & Project SEARCH

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  1. Improving choice, control and outcomes for disabled people & Project SEARCH Denise Bushay & Nick Campbell Office for Disability Issues

  2. Overview • Aim of session: • This session is about two locally led models that demonstrate practically how giving disabled people more choice and control can improve their employability and job prospects. • It will cover: • Policy context and language • Barriers to employment – models of disability • Project SEARCH • Support Planning and Brokerage project

  3. Introducing the Office for Disability Issues • Set up to coordinate disability policy across government • Lead the government’s vision for achieving equality for disabled people • Work with other Government Departments, disabled people and external groups

  4. Context • Concept / Language • Independent Living • Choice and control • Personalisation

  5. Employment – why it matters? • 10 million disabled people in Britain, around half of whom are of working age • But less than half are in employment (48 per cent) compared with nearly 80 per cent of non-disabled people … • And employment rate for some impairment groups e.g. people with learning disability & mental health is estimated to be as low as 10 per cent

  6. Medical model of disability A person’s impairment is the ‘problem’ We should try to fix the ‘problem Charity model Pity Need to be looked after Social model of disability Society creates barriers: Environment Attitudes Organisations Barriers to employment - Models of disability

  7. Taking a different approach … Project SEARCH • For those not here in 2010, a re-cap … • An employer-led internship model • Focuses education system on jobs for young disabled people • Goal of full time paid employment for interns

  8. A little local context … the Manchester based Project SEARCH site

  9. Project SEARCH – one year on • Achievements … • All 14 sites have nearly completed the demonstration year • More than 120 interns (average 9 per site) with 90 per cent expected to complete the year • Some interns have already moved into full time jobs • Real evidence of changed lives and attitudes of parents, employers and interns themselves … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elhCbuaVWIk

  10. Challenges • Building and maintaining local partnerships • Sustainable funding routes for job coaches and tutors • Embedding employment as a goal in further education • On-going support for interns, especially those who do not immediately find jobs

  11. User-led Support Planning and Brokerage project • Aim • To demonstrate how changes in traditional assessment and care management and the use of user-led Support Planning and Brokerage can enable disabled people to have more choice and control over the support they need.

  12. What does ‘user-led’ mean in this context? • Organisations run by disabled people • Work from a social model of disability perspective • Peer support based and promotes independent living

  13. Why is User-led Support Planning better than traditional care services? • Support planning more creative – job outcome discussed as part of support planning • Open up networks and widens disabled people’s horizons • Positive role models

  14. Examples of how ULO support planning can help disabled people and carers to take employment • Opening up networks – more opportunities for participation, in SAB one man had become an advisor on to the BBC on audio-description • Employing personal assistants – gives people greater flexibility around organising their days • Financial freedom - personal budgets allow people to pay for specialist employment support

  15. What these projects have demonstrated … • That real change can happen and in relatively short space of time and deliver outcomes for disabled people • Evidence of shifts in culture of working collaboratively at local level • Changing attitudes and embedding the notion that employment is a realistic and important option for disabled people

  16. Looking to the future – the policy landscape • Recently published Sayce Review of specialist disability employment provision • Building capability of ULOs - ODI fund to offer both financial and practical support • Right to Control and Jobs First • Big Society

  17. QUESTION TIMEwww.odi.gov.ukhttp://odi.dwp.gov.uk/odi-projects/independent-living-strategy/independent-living-strategy-projects.php#ilsContacts: denise.bushay@dwp.gsi.gov.uknicholas.campbell@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

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