The employment rate for people with learning disabilities hasn’t improved for over twenty years.
It stands at just one third of the rate of the general public.
Without a job, many people lack purpose, independence and self-worth.
It’s time this changed.
That’s where We Just Work comes in. Our autumn 2025 campaign seeks to learn from employees about the barriers people with learning disabilities might still face in the workplace and help everyone understand the role they could play in overcoming them.
Support the campaign
What is We Just Work?
This campaign will run until the end of October and seek to begin to reverse the learning disability unemployment crisis through:
- Gathering knowledge from employees, managers and business owners on their own perceptions and experiences of inclusive employment. This knowledge will inform future work with businesses and workers to make workplaces more suitable for people with learning disabilities.
- Offering tips to employees and managers on working with someone with learning disabilities and how they can benefit from the unique perspective they can bring
- Engaging businesses through Empowering Employment to discuss how they could offer placements or jobs for people with learning disabilities
- Raising awareness of the employment crisis among people with learning disabilities and the impact it can have on them.
The campaign will run across social media, our websites, email and at our social enterprises. Watch out for stories of inclusive employment successes, startling stats, thought-provoking articles and opportunities for you to get directly involved.
Three ways to find out more or get involved
- Sign up to receive expert tips on working with a colleague with learning disabilities – these simple approaches will help you be welcoming and supportive to people when they need it in the early days of starting a new job.
- Answer three quick questions anonymously on your current place of work or volunteering, to help inform our work to change the workplace to be better for all.
- Find out more as a manager or business owner by having a chat with our inclusive employment experts – it could be your first steps towards playing your own key role in improving inclusive hiring.
Empowering Employment’s support for businesses
Minstead Trust’s We Just Work campaign is run in conjunction with Empowering Employment – our specialist inclusive workplace advisors.
Throughout the campaign, Empowering Employment’s LinkedIn page will be full of tips, insight and guidance for businesses interested in improving their own inclusive hiring.
They will show that people with learning disabilities are already thriving in roles and can offer the solution to business’ recruitment crises.
There will also be opportunities for free, expert advice and details on how Empowering Employment offers unrivalled support to employee and employer for new work placements.
Are you a business owner or manager? Register your interest here.
