Jobcentres: Disability

(asked on 19th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps his Department is taking to evaluate whether training offered to (a) Work Coaches and (b) Disability Employment Advisors enables them to offer adequate support to jobseekers with disabilities.


Answered by
Guy Opperman Portrait
Guy Opperman
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 13th January 2023

DWP uses an evaluation strategy to assist in identifying whether learning undertaken by Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers is effective, alongside individual learning needs analysis which enables them to offer adequate support to jobseekers with disabilities. This includes an individual pre-learning assessment, post learning knowledge assessment and regular ongoing learner assessment. This ensures that Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisors have the most up to date knowledge which is accessible to all but is sensitive to everyone’s requirements regardless of abilities/disabilities.

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