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Has anyone tried these council run "Pathways to work" schemes?

DigbyDevon

Hello,

I have recently started on a council run pathways to work scheme.

I have experience but due to a combination of poor luck, poor health and the job market I have found myself out of work for nearly two years now. I signed up after finding Indeed, Reed and the like were unhelpful.

However I can't say i'm impressed to be honest, my job coach is struggling to build relationships with employers, she really struggles on computers and I'm not sure what the benefit of our weekly meetings are? I have to end up doing the things we are supposed to do in session or the next 3-4 weeks will be spent just doing forms. 

I am a bit disappointed after attaching so much hope to this scheme, has anyone else had any experience for better or worse with a similar scheme?

Parents

  • The one I tried a few years ago was very poorly run and didn't suit my needs at all. They did nothing for me.

    Fundamentally, they don't want to help us, which is counterproductive because surely they'd want more people in work and contributing to society? I've found in general there's some level of support there for autistic children, but once you reach adulthood you're thrown away and left to try and find your way in a world you may not be psychologically equipped to deal with.

    I ended up doing volunteer IT work for a charity and was lucky enough to end up securing permanent employment through that. A position came up at my local council and because the charity were affiliated with them, I was able to get an interview, negotiate it and get the job. I never expected it at all because the IT job market in particular is very saturated. 

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  • The one I tried a few years ago was very poorly run and didn't suit my needs at all. They did nothing for me.

    Fundamentally, they don't want to help us, which is counterproductive because surely they'd want more people in work and contributing to society? I've found in general there's some level of support there for autistic children, but once you reach adulthood you're thrown away and left to try and find your way in a world you may not be psychologically equipped to deal with.

    I ended up doing volunteer IT work for a charity and was lucky enough to end up securing permanent employment through that. A position came up at my local council and because the charity were affiliated with them, I was able to get an interview, negotiate it and get the job. I never expected it at all because the IT job market in particular is very saturated. 

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  • in reply to NotLikeThemButICanPretend

    I'm so sorry to hear you had a bad time with yours. Truth be told they do feel a bit poorly run which is disappointing considering my hospital job coach was amazing. 

    I do agree that support for Autistic adults does drop off as you reach adulthood, that being said I have found adult social care from the council surprisingly quite good, but that might have been because I got lucky with my "coach". 

    I was in a very similar position to you, i was a volunteer at a place for 9 months and was promised paid employment. However the firm ran into financial difficulties and I was let go. 

    Well done though for finding employment though!