What doesn't help here are the government attempts to privatise the Remploy factories (often the only employment opportunity for the disabled). Some have been sold- and the workforce reduced. In other cases, although the particular factories have full order books and customers world wide, the government wants to close them because no-one wants to buy them (or not at the price the government is asking).A government survey of 1000 ex-Remploy workers revealed that 240 were doing some sort of training and 180 were working, whereby the work is often temporary and/or part-time. Over 1500 Remploy workers have been thrown on the dole so far.