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Fightback Britain

 Fightback Britain details the findings of the largest analysis of the social enterprise sector in the UK, conducted by Social En ...

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Fit for purpose (14 November 2008)

This article appeared in The Guardian.  Despite mental health problems, Jonathan Naess maintained a successful career, and insists that others can do so too.  Now he just has to persuade employers t ...

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Learning from failure: Recycle IT case study (April 2006)

Why the computer recycler burned out. Recycle IT learning from failure case study, April 2006.pdf ...

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Learning from failure: Scotsar case study (2004)

Scotsar case study, learning from failure, 2004.pdf (case study) ...

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Electroville case study

Electroville became an independent Social Firm on 1st June 2007, having grown out of the Disabled People's Electronic Village Hall (DP-E ...

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Employment creation in social enterprises: a public authority perspective: 'The Invest To Save' evaluation summary and guide to good practice

This document forms the summary evaluation of the project as carried out by The Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy, King's College London, and provides a guide to good practice for other public au ...

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Employment creation in social enterprises: a public authority perspective: financial net cost analysis and disabled worker perspective summary

This work was carried out by The Institute for Applied Health and Social Policy, King's College London, and aimed to investigate financial costs and outcomes from the perspective of the public authority, taxp ...

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Evaluating the ethics of using disabled people as a marketing tool

This MBA dissertation was written in January 2004 by Kathy Baker, now Quality Support Manager at Social Firms UK. The study explores the ethical marketing conflicts that exist when using disabled people as a ...

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The right deal for homeless people

Most individuals who are homeless want to work but have multiple barriers to tackle before being able to gain, or sustain, employment. This is even more the case in the competitive, fast-moving, short-term, l ...

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Government disability survey 2007 exposes mental health disadvantages

People with mental health problems are significantly more disadvantaged than other disabled people, according to an Office for Disability Issues survey published yesterday.  The survey of the experiences ...

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