Employment: Disability

(asked on 26th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that adequate support is provided to people who develop disabilities to help them return to work.


Answered by
Sarah Newton Portrait
Sarah Newton
This question was answered on 4th July 2018

As set out last year in the Improving Lives: the future of work, health and disability paper, we are committed to help those with health conditions and disabilities move nearer to the labour market and, when ready, into work by building more personalised tailored employment and health support.

For example, we are:

  • Investing in a wide range of employment support measures, such as the Work and Health Programme, to ensure support is available for a large, diverse group;
  • Expanding the support available through existing initiatives like Access to Work, which now has a dedicated ‘Tech Fund’ to incentivise employers and customers to consider assistive technology support that is more flexible and more economic than other potential solutions;
  • Continuing to build the capability of work coaches and strengthen our engagement with claimants;
  • Working with employers through Disability Confident to create an inclusive environment and enable them to offer more job opportunities to these groups, and;
  • Continuing to build our evidence base to understand what works.

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