Why Remploy is not good for increasing disabled employment!

Published July 25, 2012 by bethienoodles

My Mum has MS and a few years ago spent a couple of weeks working at Remploy, and completely hated it. In a time of the Equality act and liberation campaigns. I think that the closer of Remploy Factories is actually the right move. Yes there needs to be support for people with disabilities getting into work. However it needs to be work where they can work along side people disabled and able bodied. Most people who work for Remploy do not go on to work within the rest of society. If there was such a scheme that kept people of ethnic minorities or women in employment but separate from the rest of the work force everyone would be up in arms. There needs to be schemes to help disabled into normal jobs, not to keep them separate from everyone else in society.

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