The keys to life - Improving Quality of Life for People with Learning Disabilities EASY READ version

Breaking the stereotypes

This part of the easy read is about developing new ways to help people with learning disabilities get access to education and employment opportunities.

What are our recommendations on breaking the stereotypes?

We want to help young people with disabilities plan for leaving school. This is called transition. We will do this together with:

• Local Authorities
• Skills Development Scotland
• The Transitions Forum

We want to make sure that young people get access to accessible information. This will support them to understand all the options open to them.

We want more training and education to be available for people with learning disabilities.

This will give people more choices other than going to college. We want to do this by the end of 2014.

We would like the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability to work with Scotland's Colleges and Skills Development Scotland to help make this happen.

We want to develop supported employment opportunities for people with learning disabilities.

To do this we would like the Learning Disability Implementation group to work with:

• Local authorities
• The NHS
• The third sector

These organisations should employ more people with learning disabilities by 2018. This will show others good examples of supported employment.

We would like to have more volunteer opportunities in the community for people with learning disabilities.

This will help people get work skills.

Local authorities, Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability and Volunteer Scotland should work together to make this happen.