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ToolsAnka, Ann, Lucas, Paul and Abarbanel, Avigail (2025) Everyone has the right to work: Describing a growth-focused service to support adults with learning disabilities to work. Tizard Learning Disability Review. ISSN 1359-5474
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Abstract
Purpose – This paper reports on one community-based service in England that uses a growth-focused approach to support people with learning disabilities to gain skills for employment in their communities. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a literature review and case studies from one community-based service with people with learning disabilities. A literature review was undertaken to identify relevant literature, theories, policy and law, aimed at supporting adults with learning disabilities to gain skills for employment in their communities. Findings – The community-based service uses a growth-focused approach to support people with learning disabilities to gain skills for employment within their own communities. Staff members provide intensive, one-to-one support for three service users, working with each individual for up to year. This targeted approach allows staff to tailor their support to each person’s specific needs and goals, preparing them for the workplace. Practical implications – This practice-based paper focuses on adults with learning disabilities, and not on children. It draws on experience from one community-based service rather than present empirical research. Originality/value – This paper shows how one community-based service applied theories of growth development, relationship-based practice and community of practice theory to inform its practice approach, to support adults with learning disabilities gain skills for employment in their communities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | people with learning disabilities, employment, growth development, relationship-based practice, community of practice theory, skills,growth development,employment,skills,relationship-based practice,people with learning disabilities,community of practice theory,social sciences(all),psychiatry and mental health,clinical psychology,developmental and educational psychology,social psychology,phychiatric mental health ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Social Work |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Research on Children and Families |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2026 17:30 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2026 10:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102319 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/TLDR-11-2023-0029 |
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