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1. Crosfield Industrial Unit.
This unit for severely disabled persons is a sheltered workshop approved
as such under Section 3 of the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944. The
assessment, training and rehabilitation section which was formerly part of the
unit was transferred to the Bensham Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre.
Crosfield continues to be the headquarters and principal co-ordinating
agency for all the contract work undertaken in the other centres and Warlingham
Park Hospital.
Employees work a 40 hour week, the basic rate for men being £10.16s.8d.
per week and £8.0s.l0d. for women. Travelling expenses up to 2/- daily and
free mid-day meals are provided. Two weeks paid holiday is given each year.
22 of the disabled are trade union members.
As in previous years there have been no problems arising, over the wide
cross section of mental and physical disability represented in the workforce
and continuing experience supports the benefit of this policy to employees
and to the establishment of a viable factory.
New ventures during the year included the setting up of a mobile work
force which undertook grass cutting and simple gardening at old peoples
homes whilst within the factory contracts for skilled electrical sub-assembly
were successfully introduced to overcome the shortage of unskilled jobs.