Supporting enterprise by people with learning disabilities

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Challenges to this approach emerged during the 1980s. An Ordinary Working Life (King's Fund Centre, 1984), for example, argued that the rights of people with learning disabilities as citizens included a right to 'valued, rewarding and unsegregated' employment. Valuing People formalised the view that 'real' work, jobs and employment offered people opportunities to develop social status, a wider range of relationships and feelings of self-worth. But while support services are now more likely to be geared towards helping people find work, there remain significant barriers to people earning a living through it. The welfare benefit system provides disincentives, with heavy marginal tax rates on the boundary of benefit and employment. The national minimum wage has helped some in work to increase their income, but this has been offset by others who have been forced to reduce their hours to stay within benefit disregard limits (Schneider, Simons & Everatt, 2001). Unsurprisingly, people with learning disabilities remain cautious about any move from benefit and all it implies (O'Brien et al., 2000).