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Supported employment
for people with learning difficulties

Supported employment is a service for people with learning difficulties who want to work. People called job trainers help you learn your new job.

Malcolm Bass and Robert Drewett found out what it was like for people with learning difficulties to go to work with this kind of support.

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Most people found their job trainer very helpful and said that they could not have done the job without them.

Most people got paid for going to work. But some people did not get paid even though they were doing good work.

Doing paid work can affect your benefits.
Most people made new friends at work.
Most people thought that going to work was better than going to a day centre, because there was much more to do.