Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to Part One of the National Disability Strategy, published 28 July 2021, what progress her Department has made on defining a cross-government accessibility profession.

Home Office Officials are working in collaboration with Officials from the Cabinet Office’s Central Digital, Data and Technology office (CDDO) and other government departments to gather and build the evidence and business case for a digital accessibility career path within the Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) profession. An outline proposal has been submitted to the CDDO’s Profession Management function for consideration and officials are due to meet in the coming weeks to discuss the proposals.

In the meantime, work has begun to scope the roles and supporting framework in anticipation of approval. This work will build on the work already done to establish a roles framework for digital accessibility professionals at the Home Office.