Some 31,000 people with a mental or physical handicap are now doing regular jobs, up 3,100 on a year ago, according to the sheltered work group Cedris in Monday’s Trouw.

This is the result of intense contact between Cedris and local industry, chairwoman Joan Leemhuis-Stout told the paper.
The Netherlands has 93 sheltered work projects, where people with a handicap work under close supervision for 120% of the minimum wage.
However, the waiting list for a place is growing and the wages are set to be cut in 2013. The government is also planning to cut €1.8bn from the budget for sheltered work projects.
This makes the chance of continuing this success ‘practically zero’, Leemhuis-Stout told the paper.