ABSTRACT
Supported Employment is a perspective that involves supporting people with a severe disability to find and maintain a job on the ordinary labour market. The key idea of Supported Employment is to support people with a substantial disability that otherwise would not work in an ordinary work setting. It was conceived for a target group that was traditionally non-employed or employed only in sheltered work settings. Policy in many countries has been about defining the success of Supported Employment through the number of placements made. This can lead to an effect known as "creaming", where Supported Employment providers choose people with less severe disabilities as clients in order to more easily fulfil quantitative placement criteria. There are many examples of people not regarded by their environment as able to work on the ordinary labour market but that through Supported Employment have succeeded in finding and maintaining such a job.
