A UNIQUE recruitment pack to persuade people to consider the joys and challenges of working with people with learning disabilities has been launched.

It includes a CD-rom, website and video featuring local people with learning disabilities living very independent lives.

In it, they go bowling in Morecambe, visit Preston market, go out to work, cook in their own homes and get around on a mobility scooter.

The aim of the pack, says Ann Love, a business development manager for learning disabilities with the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority, is to show people that becoming a support worker for people with learning disabilities can be an exciting and rewarding career.

"It is one of the most varied jobs anyone can do. They accompany clients to work, or football matches and even on holiday.

"Enabling people with learning disabilities to live a full and independent life can be such fun - and that's what we wanted to convey."

The scheme, developed with NHS trusts in Lancashire, Connexions, voluntary and independent organisations and social services, is the first of it's type in the country.

More information can be found by logging on to the recruitment website at www.ldwcl.net.