Knowledge Center

Employment is crucial for people's social integration, physical and mental health, well-being and self realization…whatsoever your abilities and disabilities are.

This website hopes to contribute to full employment of people with disabilities and will tackle barriers and gaps, facilitate stakeholder cooperation, develop innovative approaches and support Human Rights based initiatives.

EASPD represents close to 8000 service provider organizations across disability and across Europe. A considerable part of the EASPD membership provides job-related services or employment to people with disabilities. Employment and job opportunities, therefore, are high on the agenda of the service providers in Europe.

The partners collected information on legislation, on labour market policies, on methods and approaches, but also on case studies, on good examples, on measures, schemes and processes that worked, on individual success stories. The scientific partners prepared a research review of good practice, whereas the survey partners carried out interviews with different stakeholders: people with learning disabilities, service and training providers, employers and co-workers. Once gathered, all material is edited by the scientific partners before it is made available here.

You can consult the information by searching by topic:

• Employers' concerns before hiring a person with learning difficulties

• Employers' opinion about workers with learning difficulties

• Employers' support to employees with learning difficulties

• Employers: system changes required Labour Market

• Programmes and Welfare Benefit Systems

• Research abstracts: Costs

• Research abstracts: Sheltered Employment

• Research abstracts: Supported Employment

• Research abstracts: Training and Education

• Training and employment providers

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