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About 2 months ago I went for a meeting at a local Job Centre, anyway my original intention was to sign back up to Remploy, but they said not to do that because of their demand to work 16 hours per week which I can't do without drastic changes to my weekly schedule and care plan.
So they suggested joining a "Work Preparation" group, initially I said no because, well, I've been doing voluntary work for longer than I care to remember, so do I need to "prepare" for work? No, I do not (at least not IMO), anyway, my single handed efforts to gain work outside of the voluntary sector have been to date, unsuccessful, every time I declare my disability, especially AS, my application gets binned.
I have reservations about signing up to a group, firstly I hate group work, I'd much rather work either 1 to 1 or alone, plus whenever I've done this kind of thing before I've nearly always been the eldest in a group full of 17/18 year old kids who clearly don't want to work, but have been sent under threat of benefit sanctions if they don't attend. So anyway, should I risk this happening again and sign up, with their allegedly being the chance of a paid job at the end of the course, based on working 10 hours a week over 2 days, at full minimum wage of £7.20 (About $9 an hour at current exchange rate) per hour?
About 2 months ago I went for a meeting at a local Job Centre, anyway my original intention was to sign back up to Remploy, but they said not to do that because of their demand to work 16 hours per week which I can't do without drastic changes to my weekly schedule and care plan.
So they suggested joining a "Work Preparation" group, initially I said no because, well, I've been doing voluntary work for longer than I care to remember, so do I need to "prepare" for work? No, I do not (at least not IMO), anyway, my single handed efforts to gain work outside of the voluntary sector have been to date, unsuccessful, every time I declare my disability, especially AS, my application gets binned.
I have reservations about signing up to a group, firstly I hate group work, I'd much rather work either 1 to 1 or alone, plus whenever I've done this kind of thing before I've nearly always been the eldest in a group full of 17/18 year old kids who clearly don't want to work, but have been sent under threat of benefit sanctions if they don't attend. So anyway, should I risk this happening again and sign up, with their allegedly being the chance of a paid job at the end of the course, based on working 10 hours a week over 2 days, at full minimum wage of £7.20 (About $9 an hour at current exchange rate) per hour?
