- Remploy was formed more than 60 years ago to provide work for people injured at home and abroad during the Second World War.
- Last year Remploy found 5,200 jobs in mainstream employment for disabled people.
- The company plans, by 2012, to be finding 20,000 jobs for disabled people in mainstream employment every year.
- Remploy partners with some of the country's largest organisations to place disabled people into work, including BT, ASDA, Christian Salvesen, B&Q, the NHS and local authorities.
- The company employs a total of 6,500 people across the UK.
- Remploy operates 10 businesses at 83 locations. It is the country's leading supplier of school furniture and supplies specialist protection suits to police and the military in the UK and abroad.
- The company operates a Return to Work business which advises employers on how to retain staff with disabilities or illness.
- Remploy will, by the end of the year, have opened 20 high street recruitment branches providing a range of recruitment, advice and development services to prepare disabled people for jobs in mainstream employment.
- Remploy led a Task Force comprising the leading disability charities, academics and disability experts which agreed a strategy for removing barriers to employment for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems.
- Remploy is a Non Departmental Public Body. Its sponsoring department is the Department for Work and Pensions.
