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Accessible version for people with learning difficulties
What is the project about?
The “Making the Jump” project is about how people with learning difficulties can move on from courses and training for work to actually getting a job.
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During the project the NIACE project workers visited colleges, adult education centres, supported employment organisations and self-advocacy organisations.
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They spoke to staff and people with learning difficulties about making the jump from learning and training to getting a job.
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What did the project find?
 | It was difficult to find places where people with learning difficulties are being supported to move on to get work at the end of their courses or training. |
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| Where people with learning difficulties were being helped to make the jump to work, different organisations like colleges and supported employment agencies worked together to make this happen. |
| Money to pay for services that help people move on from learning and training to work, was hard to find. |
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| Some of the things that help people with learning difficulties to make the
jump to work are:
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| each person having their own learning and training plan |
| making sure when a person with learning difficulties has a job, that they have support if they need it |
| It is very important to have clear information about how getting paid work will affect benefits. |
| A lot of people with learning difficulties are worried about losing their benefits. This puts some people off looking for a job. |
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| When managers are planning services, it is important that they include courses and training that support people to move on to work. At the moment this is only happening in a few places. |
| Many people with learning difficulties want to work: |
“Give us a chance to show what we can do.”
“Never give up. Try and go for something you enjoy people didn’t think I could ever work.”
There are two Making the Jump - Transition to work packs:
Making the Jump ‘We can do a good job’, is a pack for people with learning difficulties. In the pack people with learning difficulties who have made the jump and are working, talk about what helped them to do this. The pack is written with clear words and pictures. There is a CD recording of the pack included. The pack costs £15.00.
Making the Jump: A guide to supporting adults with learning difficulties make the jump from education to employment is a pack for staff. It contains guidelines and examples of good practice where adults with learning difficulties are effectively supported in their transition from education to employment.
You can BUY the Making the jump set for £60.00. ‘We can do a good job’ is also available to buy on it’s own for £15.00 each
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NIACE |
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| Thank you to the Department of Health for funding the
Making the Jump project and to Mencap for its help with funding for the Making
the Jump. ‘We can do a good job’ pack.
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"Making the Jump" online |
