Manpower Services Commission: Employment Service Division: Planning and Development,...

The series contains files on the programme for special employment needs. The programme relates to those seriously disabled people who because of their handicaps are unable to meet the required standards for work in open industry, but who, under sheltered conditions, are able to maintain normal employment.

The aim is to ensure, by means of financial support to approved organisations, the provision of facilities to enable them to work under sheltered conditions and to help them where practicable to overcome their disabilities sufficiently to take their place in open employment

The series is arranged in file reference order (within each transfer).

• Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Agency, 1974-1978
• Manpower Services Commission, Employment Service Division, 1978-1985

From 2011 Department for Work and Pensions

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At the end of 1974, the Manpower Services Commission endorsed the Department of Employment's view, as expressed in the consultative document 'Sheltered employment for disabled people', that in order to promote effective progress the present system of dual responsibility for sheltered employment should be replaced by a single authority.

Although the Government decided against establishing a single authority, the Commission agreed to take over the Department of Employment's responsibilities for sheltered employment, as well as related policy development and the secretariat for the National Advisory Council for the Employment of Disabled people.

Responsibility was officially passed in July 1976, with management located within the Employment Services Division (referred to then as the Employment Services Agency).