Employment and Skills news from AFK
Advance’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.
Advance’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.
Berkeley’s support provides essential resources and enriching experiences, like site visits during National Careers Week, empowering children and young people with disabilities and autism.
AFK partners with a great platform for accessing resources and those that are confident working independently on their self-employment journey.
The AFK World of Work programme is partnering with schools and employers to create experiences and improve aspirations to enter work for young people with disabilities.
To celebrate Learning Disability Week, we’re at I AM Festival – a yearly celebration empowering D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent young people to explore their creativity.
‘Our View’ is a collection of short films made by young people with special educational needs and disabilities on their experiences, challenges and successes in preparing for and gaining employment.
Delvon joined my AFK from Haringey Sixth Form in September 2019 as part of the Haringey Employment Support Programme, which supports disabled Haringey residents aged 18-25 into paid employment.
Kerone came to my AFK with the hopes of finding an employer who was willing to remove the barriers he faced to employment. He secured a job at Cosprop.
Staff at my AFK share their stories of what they do working here. This one comes from Louise who is part of our Life and Work team.
People accessing my AFK Work Experience are given the opportunity to explore their own learning through goal-directed activities that engage and challenge.
The City Bridge Trust’s “Bridge to Work” programme aims to narrow the employment gap for young disabled people in London.
To celebrate Learning Disability Week, we’re sharing some of our favourite success stories from our Life and Work Programme at my AFK.
The Bloomfield Trust has awarded AFK a grant of £50,000 to support London’s unemployed disabled young people into work.
On Friday 5th October my AFK brought together key partners, Ambassadors, volunteers and trainees for the Community & Trainee Awards Ceremony.
It’s Learning Disability Week this week, so we’re sharing some of our favourite success stories from our life and work programme at my AFK.
It’s Learning Disability Week this week, so we’re sharing some of our favourite success stories from our Life and Work Programme at my AFK.
Did you know – disabled people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as their non-disabled peers?
To celebrate our trainees’ successes in life and work, we held our first ever awards ceremony with VIP guests Dr Popsy and Eastenders actress Lisa Hammond.