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Plans have just been published to assist sufferers from autism to find work more easily. This is an overdue and welcome announcement from government which accepts that autism sufferers have been excluded from the workplace for far too long. (more…)
The government yesterday announced measures to tackle unemployment and increase the responsibility of those on benefits to return to work. Benefit sanctions will be introduced for those who who refuse to attend Job Centres. But will these measures work? Indeed, do Job centres work? Or is the whole approach to the long term unemployed, and other socially excluded groups, misplaced and bound to fail? (more…)
In ‘Helping the Socially Excluded Back Into Work’ (23 Nov 08), Harry has commented that our prison work in London sets new standards. It certainly does. Prisoners who initially join the programme intent only on getting a job soon learn to trust their consultant and believe that the partnership between the two of them can deliver much more than just a job – a new working life with a positive direction of travel and an overarching career strategy.
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One of the lesser known activities that Career Energy undertakes, but which is growing rapidly, is our work in helping those who are excluded from society to find jobs and improve their prospects. The causes of social exclusion are many – it may be as a result of grinding povery, long term sickness, imprisonment or general disadvantage. But the solutions for helping someone who is excluded from the workplace to enter it are just the same as they are for someone who has worked all their life.