Disability employment support organisations

Disability Employment Adviser

Disability Employment Advisers, based at the local Jobcentre, can arrange for an assessment of your individual needs.

They can offer advice and support, training, fares to work and access to equipment through the Access to Work Scheme.

Croydon Employment and Support Services (CESS)

CESS is a service that supports people with disbilities to find appropriate paid employment which makes the most of their talent and potential.

The service ensures that people with disabilities are actively helped to access employment advice and guidance.

Action for Blind People

Run by the London Employment Development Centre, Action for Blind People offers training and support to visually impaired people, no matter where they are on the road to employment.

This includes trying out various pieces of specialist equipment such as computers with speech software.

Croydon Mencap

Mencap services include residential, education and employment services, leisure opportunities and individual support and advice for people with a learning disability, their families and carers.

Mind in Croydon

Provides a wide range of services for people with mental health problems, their relatives and carers. These include advice and information, help with welfare benefits, advocacy, parenting advocacy, social networking, active minds, employment support, a furniture project and individual packages of support for people with personal budgets (www.mindmatch.org.uk). It also offers professional counselling to people with psychological or emotional problems, including one-to-one counselling and group therapy. 

Mind maintains the online guide to mental health services in Croydon (http://directory.mindincroydon.org.uk/).They have also produced highly regarded training materials including videos, DVDs and training packs.

More details about Mind's services can be found on their website: www.mindincroydon.org.uk.

Shaw Trust

Shaw Trust is a national charity that provides training and work opportunities for people who are disadvantaged in the labour market due to disability, ill health or other social circumstances. They are the largest UK provider of employment services for disabled people.

Working Links

Working Links was established in 2000 to deliver the Government's Employment Zones in some of Britain's most disadvantaged communities. They are now firmly established as one of the most successful organisations at helping people get back to work, long-term.

Contact Details

Action for Blind People
Telephone Freephone 0800 915 4666
Fax 020 7635 4900
Email info@actionforblindpeople.org.uk
Address 14-16 Verney Road
London
SE16 3DZ
Website www.afbp.org
Croydon Employment and Support Service (CESS)
Telephone 020 8255 5473
Email hannah.navarro@croydon.gov.uk
Address Chatsworth Hall
14 Chatsworth Road
Croydon
CR0 1HE
Croydon Mencap
Telephone 020 8662 9201
Fax 020 8662 9202
Email croydonmencap@btconnect.com
Address Croydon Mencap Ltd
60-61 Leslie Park Road
Croydon CR0 6TP
Website www.croydon.cswebsites.org
Disability Employment Adviser
Telephone 020 8700 8369
Website www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/HelpForDis
abledPeople/AccesstoWork
Mind in Croydon
Telephone 020 8668 2210
Fax 020 8763 2084
Email admin@mindincroydon.org.uk
Address 26 Pampisford Road
Purley
Surrey
CR8 2NE
Website www.mindincroydon.org.uk
Shaw Trust Enquiries
Telephone 01225 716300
Minicom 08457 697288
Address Fox Talbot House
Greenways Business Park
Bellinger Close
Chippenham
Wiltshire
SN15 1BN
Website www.shaw-trust.org.uk
Working Links
Telephone 0800 917 9262
Email information@workinglinks.co.uk
Address Working Links
Garden House
57-59 Long Acre
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 9JL
Website www.workinglinks.co.uk

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