Facilities Management Association

 

 

 

The Government believes that in the 21st century disabled people should participate fully in mainstream jobs, not in Government funded segregated jobs. The responses to the Sayce Review supported this view and to increase the number of disabled people that could be helped into the labour market the Government implemented the Review's recommendations on the Remploy factory network which meant that a number of Remploy factories and associated businesses were closed.

 

The factories were in: Aberdare, Abertilly, Acton, Ashington, Barking, Birkenhead, Bolton, Cleator Moor, Gateshead, Haringey, Leeds, Leicester, Wythenshaw, Merthyr Tydfil, Motherwell, Newcastle, Oldham, Penzance, Pontefract, Poole, Preston, Southampton, Spennymoor, Stoke, Swansea, Wigan, Worksop and Wrexham.

 

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Remploy are working with a wide range of employers to identify suitable opportunities to ex-Remploy employees (such as jobs, voluntary work experience, guaranteed interviews, job-shadowing, pre-application training or on the job training). So far 221 ex-Remploy people have moved with a range of employers operating across the retail, hospitality, manufacturing, agriculture, facilities management, security and logistics sectors.

 

If you feel you are able to support people who have left the factories please contact Chris Gladwell ([email protected]) (07971 994967) in DWP to discuss how you could help.