- Supported Employment Team Information on getting into paid work, including pre-employment training. Click here for more information, telephone 020 8496 2710 or 020 8496 2711 or fax 020 8496 2700
- Job Centre Plus General employment advice
- Ellingham Employment Services A local agency providing work experience, literacy and numeracy skills and a range of other services
- Mencap (National) Information on work, including guides for employers, people with learning disabilities and parents and carers. You can telephone them on 020 7454 0454, fax 020 7696 5540 or email information@mencap.org
- Connexions Services for young people upto 25 years old
Careers in learning disabilities
Studying
- Open University provides a range of distance-learning courses
- Waltham Forest College provides courses in Health and Social Care. You can also ring the College on telephone 020 8501 8000
Work
- Community Care Magazine has a job search page listing care jobs throughout the country
- JobsGoPublic Public and not-for-profit sector jobs throughout the country
- London Borough of Waltham Forest database of all vacancies in Waltham Forest
- Adult Family Placement Scheme Information on becoming a carer on the Adult Family Placement scheme
