Remploy

Remploy

Remploy Ltd is a government owned company in the United Kingdom which provides employment and employment placement services for disabled people. It was established in 1945 under the terms of the 1944 Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, and opened its first factory in 1946. Over the following decades it established a network of factories across the UK making a wide variety of products, and in the late 20th century it moved into service businesses.

Remploy has undergone a major modernisation, and is now also a leading provider of employment services for disabled people and others with barriers to employment. A transformed organisation, transforming people's lives. In 2007 Remploy placed 6,500 people into jobs across a range of sectors. In its quest to be a major welfare to work provider, delivering a range of contracts and employment programme, Remploy aims to place 20,000 people a year into mainstream jobs by 2012.

References

External links

* [http://www.remploy.co.uk/ Official site]


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