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Campaigning to Get young disabled people into employment

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I am currently campaigning to get young disabled people into employment. I feel that the government are not doing enough to get disabled people into employment.
I am currently campaigning to get young disabled people into employment. I feel that the government are not doing enough to get disabled people into employment.
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I went to a disability resource centre designed to get disabled people into work and they just seemed to teach really basic stuff - IT skills, managing money, writing a CV etc. Not to be immodest but honestly I could have taught them a thing or two! What they really needed to teach was how to overcome disability and get into work.
I think people don't realise we know how a "normal" person gets into work - write a decent CV, go to an interview etc, we don't need support with that. We need support at overcoming disability to get into the workplace.
I have did the same thing as you and defiantly agree that people do not understand that we do know how to get into employment.
I have decided to campaign because I feel that we are not being heard by the government.
Do you have a blog? it would be a great addition to highlight your work and show any updates.
It sounds like you are doing some great work and we would love to hear more about. Scope too are working towards more disabled people in employment and have a wide range of services and advice which can help.
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I do hope that you haven't dropped off to sleep. I just wanted you to see and understand that things were getting for the disabled but now it's going backwards. I'm a trustee for a disabled charity and go to different meetings including one where the County Council attend and I really am sorry if somebody out there with mental health issues as I'm not against you in anyway honestly, but they go on about mental health but nothing about disabled, both topics should share that time, but they don't. What do you think about this. Could we all come together and get things going? Denise11