This paper addresses the possibilities and limitations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) to influence young participants mental health. Mental health is defined as the ability to cope with external and internal needs.

Here you can access the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) report on barriers to employment for disabled people

Most career counselling and guidance practitioners would readily acknowledge that each client is unique, and that individual differences must be accepted and respected. However, practice often reflects the assumption that a particular interviewing approach is transferable across a wide range of clients. Multicultural counselling challenges this view.

Supported Employment (SE) was developed to help people with severe mental illness find work . It started in the 1980s in the USA and was originally developed to help clients with learning disabilities find waged permanent work within a normal working environment, also described as competitive or open employment.

In the summer of 2004 the Black Country Connexions Service as part of the Black Country Transition Development Project, in consultation with the four Parent Partnership Services agreed to survey parents on their experiences of the Transition Review. From here you can access the reports arising.