Kickstart Scheme: Disability

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to promote the Disability Confident scheme to employers offering Kickstart placements.


Answered by
Mims Davies Portrait
Mims Davies
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The Disability Confident Scheme encourages employers to think differently about how they can improve the way they attract, recruit and retain people with disabilities in their workforce. We encourage all employers to consider each young person fairly and promote a wide-range of roles that will suit all those in need of a Kickstart job. Information on the scheme is included with the Department for Work and Pensions’ Kickstart Scheme guidance alongside the existing disability confident employer engagement. This guidance can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-employers-apply-for-a-kickstart-scheme-grant-kickstart-gateway

Our ongoing evaluation of the Kickstart Scheme will consider potential barriers faced by young people from different demographic groups or with particular protected characteristics. Our learning from this exercise will be fed back into the programme.

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