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Over the last two decades the Rehab Group has been transformed into one of Europe's biggest and most influential providers of services for people with disabilities. Each year more than 30,000 clients avail of the world-class programmes that have been developed by the organisation across Ireland and the UK.

It is a far cry from the Group's origins in a basement room in Dublin's south inner city where its first service was established a half a century ago to help survivors of tuberculosis regain their independence and return to work.

Today, Rehab delivers training, education, employment and social care services in a network of some 140 centres. And whilst people with disabilities continue to represent the majority of its client base, other marginalised groups such as people who are long-term unemployed, are increasingly using its services.

In Ireland the Group's main divisions are:

The National Training and Development Institute (NTDI) which provides training, education and job placement services at over 60 locations nationwide.

Gandon Enterprises, a group of nine businesses with a unique fifty-fifty employment policy between people with disabilities and non-disabled workers.

RehabCare, the health and social care division of the Group, which provides a range of services in the community to people with disabilities, older people and carers.

Rehab believes that regardless of a person's disability or social circumstances, it's ability that should determine success in life. As a result, the organisation's role goes beyond providing services that enable our clients to make the most of their skills and talents in the workplace and the wider community.

In addition to championing the abilities of our clients through services that are effective and progressive, the Rehab Group is a leading campaigner for reforms to remove the barriers preventing equal opportunities, particularly for people with disabilities.

We are also committed to the formation of a broad coalition of all stakeholders within the disability sector and we support the full implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on the Status of People with Disabilities.

And we are deeply involved in the development of a more businesslike, rather than merely philanthropic, approach to the provision of disability services through the Not for Profit Business Association.

Within Rehab, people with disabilities have a powerful say in the decisions that affect the services they use through client bodies that represent their interests. These include the National Representative Council and the National RehabCare Advocacy Council.

The organisation also has a highly expert Research and Innovation department responsible for developing new services for clients across the Rehab Group divisions, as well as ensuring the quality of existing programmes.

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