Diana visits Linkage College, Grimsby.

7.00.00pm GMT Fri 13th Jun 2008

Local Euro MP, Diana Wallis, visited Linkage College, Grimsby today meeting about 50 students in total in small groups throughout the afternoon and answering questions about her work as an MEP, on European issues and about the Liberal Democrats.

Linkage Community Trust (Linkage) is a registered charity which provides high quality education, care and employment services to enable people with learning difficulties and other disabilities to realise their full potential. Linkage was established in 1976 and owes its origins to the recognition that, for many people with varying degrees of learning difficulty, there is a shortage of appropriate support for them to lead creative and purposeful lives in the community.

Linkage provides services for over three hundred learning disabled people from all over the country and employs over six hundred people in Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. Its main facilities are in Toynton All Saints (near Spilsby), Grimsby, Scremby, Lincoln and Mablethorpe.

Linkage students and other service users are people with varying degrees of learning difficulty, from moderate to severe, including Down's syndrome, Autism, Asperger syndrome, Williams syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, speech and language difficulties, visual impairment, hearing impairment, epilepsy or physical disabilities.

The College was inspected by Oftsed in April and was found to be outstanding.