June 2016 – March 2021. Funded by The Big Lottery Fund's Getting Ahead 2 grant.
Learning Disability Wales has been awarded a £10m grant to boost the employment prospects of young people in Wales with a learning disability and / or learning difficulty, including autism.
The five-year Engage to Change project, starting in April 2016, will work with 800 employers across Wales to help 1,000 young people with learning disability and/or autism to develop their employment skills through paid work placements lasting between 6-12 months.
Read more about the project here:
www.ldw.org.uk/projects/current-projects/engage-to-change.aspx#.V6NJPeQYEql