Links

Links Page

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• Ability Fest West of Scotland Festival of Opportunities for Disabled People
• AbilityNet advice, factsheets, assessments, training and assistive technology.
• Assist-IT Training and consultancy in assistive technology.
• Careers Scotland 'the site for anyone living and working in Scotland and wanting to discover their potential.'
• Castlemilk Economic Development Agency (CEDA) exists to improve the economic vitality of Castlemilk. It works to improve the social, economic and physical infrastructure of the area.
• DIGG (Disability Information in Greater Glasgow)
• Employability Framework Reports (Scottish Executive)
  Download Copies of the Workstream Reports for the Employability Framework
• Employers' Forum on Disability The leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Funded and managed by over 400 members.
• Equal Access to Employment in Glasgow
• Equality, Training and Consultancy DDA Training
• EUSE European Union of Supported Employment
  The European Union of Supported Employment (EUSE) was established in 1993 to facilitate the development of Supported Employment throughout Europe. Supported Employment assists people with significant disabilities (physical, intellectual, psychiatric, sensory and hidden) to access real employment opportunities, of their own choice, in an integrated setting with appropriate ongoing support to become economically and socially active in their own communities.
• Flourish House has an Education and Employment Unit that offers Transistional Employment Placements to members.
• Glasgow Employer Coalition was set up in 1998 to help deliver the New Deal in Glasgow. The Coalition has devised demand-led training projects to help disadvantaged jobseekers gain employment. Successful projects in the retail and energy sectors led to the successful introduction of the Ambition initiatives.
• Hoolet Ltd Scottish company specialising in software and consultancy relating to a range of social inclusion issues.
• IXSEED, the website of the Glasgow Learning Disability Partnership.
• JARCS. Disability issues in Employment, Education and Leisure. Events Managemement, Training Brokerage, Research and Information.
• Maclay Murray and Spens DDA Training
• National Employment and Health Innovations Network This network provides regular opportunities for innovators and policy makers to meet to exchange ideas, experience and evidence covering the whole field of health and work. It is sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions and supported by the Department of Health, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Scottish Executive.
• National Employment Panel is an employer-led organisation which advises the UK Government on labour market policies and performance. The principal objective is to help disadvantaged people move from poverty into jobs that contribute to business productivity and growth.
• Re:Focus Project. ESF Funding supporting Equal Access
• SAIF Scottish Accessible Information Forum. Scottish government funded organisation promoting production of accessible materials for disabled people.
• Scottish Employment Opportunities a national charity helping disabled people to find and retain work. It acts as a Job Broker for New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP)
• SUSE (Scottish Union for Supported Employment) the national network for organisations working to promote equality of employment opportunity for disabled and disadvantaged people.
• Social Firms Scotland
  Social Firms Scotland exists to promote and develop new social firms throughout Scotland, and to help existing ones develop their capacity to create further employment for disabled people. It is a membership organisation, and is working at both national policy level and at local level.
• Social Firms UK aims to create employment opportunities for disabled people through the development and support of social firms.
• Training Resource Network An American site offering resources on the full inclusion of disabled people in their communities.
• Vocational Rehabilitation Association helps members working in the field of disability and employment to develop their professional practice and to maintain their awareness of a broad range of disability issues.

This page was updated 27 February 2006