Contract boost at firm with staff who have autism

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Contract boost at firm with staff who have autism

A social enterprise set up to create jobs for people with autism has won its first contract to supply IT services to a firm.

Source Publication: 
ET

Specialisterne Scotland was the first group to stem from a Danish project which provides job opportunities for people with autism and harnesses characteristics of the condition as skills for software testing.

A total of 10 people with autism have now completed a six-month training scheme and have been taken on full-time. The firm has also secured a contract to create a web portal for the Glasgow Third Sector Forum, developing an online facility for voluntary groups.