supported employment

collocation in English

meaningsofsupportandemployment

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support
noun
uk
/səˈpɔːt/us
/səˈpɔːrt/
agreement with and encouragement for an idea, group, ...
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employment
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/us
/ɪmˈplɔɪ.mənt/
the fact of someone being paid to work for a company ...
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(Definition ofsupportandemploymentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The maximum grant payable in 1994–95 per contracted place in thesupportedemploymentprogramme will be £4,420 for both voluntary body and local authority providers.
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Remploy remains an integral putt of thesupportedemploymentprogramme.
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Clause 10 deals with charities andsupportedemploymentbeing able to take positive action.
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The report refers to 1,600supportedemploymentplaces, and to the need for much more research into, and understanding of, what can be done.
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The new power will enable us to fundsupportedemploymentin dividend-distributing bodies.
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We have had an extremely worthwhile debate focusing on three principal matters: first, thesupportedemploymentprogramme; secondly, quota: and, thirdly, registration.
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Particularly, we would consult those groups representing existingsupportedemploymentproviders.
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This is known as sheltered orsupportedemployment.
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That strikes me as a good argument for taking the brakes offsupportedemploymentas a whole, which costs a total of some £153 million.
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I have recently been examining the workings of thesupportedemploymentscheme, which benefits some 21,500 disabled persons.
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Can my noble friend now refute that and allay employees' fears by making it absolutely clear that choice for disabled people must includesupportedemployment?
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No one already insupportedemploymentor on a waiting list will lose that place as a result of the changes.
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There is a shortage of at least 40,000supportedemploymentplaces.
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If the targets are to be achieved, the best way to do so is surely—as we have heard—throughsupportedemploymentschemes.
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There are about 20,000 people insupportedemployment.
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We believe that registration is not worth keeping simply as a route intosupportedemployment.
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There is no question of those for whom the workstep programme—which replacedsupportedemployment—is inappropriate being forced to progress into open employment.
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We are also reviewing thesupportedemploymentprogramme, because we want to support more people.
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We recognise the importance ofsupportedemploymentas an option for people who are unable to work without support.
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Changes have also been announced to the funding arrangements for thesupportedemploymentprogramme —what we used to call sheltered placements.
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