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Remploy offers to fill gap
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Remploy says its disabled clients could play a significant role in helping operators overcome the skills shortage. Sally Nash reports.
REMPLOY, the UK's largest provider of jobs for disabled people, is stepping up its drive to work with hauliers and logistics firms.
Encouraged by the success of its partnership with Christian Satvesen, Remploy Interwork, the specialist recruitment division of Remploy, hopes to work with large distribution firms and smaller hauliers.
Mark Burrett,national development manager for warehousing and logistics at Remploy Interwork, has been talking to personnel managers at Exel, Wincanton andTNT Other companies including the Lane Group have also expressed an interest in working with Remploy. Remploy identifies suitable people with disabilities and works with employers to offer training and support.
"This is meeting a business need by providing companies with the right person for the right job," Bur rett says. "This is nothing about a sympathy vote but, instead, a market-led strategy which could help reduce staff turnover, cut the number of agency drivers needed and help plug the shortfall in HG V drivers." Burrett says many disabled people are able to work in distribution with minimal changes.
The common perception of disabilities tends to centre on mobility problems, but David McLaren, a driver with Christian Salvesen's Motherwell depot, has suffered with severe depression.
McLaren, who found his job through Remploy Interwork, says: -Working for Christian Salvesen has boosted my self-confidence. If companies are willing to give more disabled people a chance it has got to bc good news."
Contact Mark Barrett on: 01225 791973 or mark.burrett@remploy. co.uk