We commissioned Cordis Bright, an independent research consultancy, to conduct research about supporting young people with a learning disability and/or autism into employment.
The report explores the current landscape of employment support in England, promising interventions and key areas for improvements.
As a What Works Centre, Youth Futures Foundation is committed to developing an evidence-based approach to supporting young people from marginalised backgrounds into employment. We know that young people with a learning disability or autism (LDA) face additional barriers to entering the labour market, and may require support from a provider of employment support programmes, a job coach, or from a prospective employer to enable them to do so.
We wanted to better understand the scale of need for employment support, the current employment support provision across England, what works and what is promising for young people with LDA, and how to address the gap between current provision and current need.
