The organisational characteristics that enable successful employment transition for people with intellectual disabilities

Social enterprises have the potential to address some of the current barriers that people with an intellectual disability experience in transitioning to open employment opportunities. This qualitative study investigated how social enterprises are able to facilitate this transition to inform the scaling up of these organisational characteristics and strategies.

The research found the organisational characteristics of social enterprise that enable transitions include:

• offering a variety of roles and workplace environments for people with intellectual disabilities
• having dedicated staff roles to support people with intellectual disabilities to develop skills to transition
• having these support staff to network with open employers to facilitate the transition.