diagnostic tool

FREE GUIDE to help people with disabilities & health problems through the benefits maze and into work

*The Permitted Work Guide has been updated to due to increases in the permitted work limits and is correct from October 2010*

Finding a job at the moment is hard enough and if you’re disabled or have a mental health problem it’s even more difficult. Making the leap from relying on benefits to getting a full time job is often simply unrealistic. But part-time work can help to build up skills, confidence and a work record to show to future employers. It also raises the self esteem that comes with earning a wage. However many disabled people who want work are trapped in an incredibly complex web of benefit rules and aren’t aware of what it’s possible to do.

Social screening diagnostic tool

Author: 
Social Firms UK
2006
Free
Social Firms UK

This tool helps assess the viability of a business to become a social enterprise. It enables the quality of employment, workplace support issues and employee development opportunities to be assessed in businesses that might be replicated as Social Firms or social enterprises. It comes in Word format in order to allow your own text to be added. This document was is an adaptation of a tool produced by Social Firms Australia as part of a business buy-out programme. It has been produced with the support of the Small Business Service.