Employment: Mental Illness
(asked on 16th March 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 support people with mental disabilities (a) into and (b) to remain in employment.
This question was answered on 24th March 2020
The Government is committed to reducing the disability employment gap and seeing a million more disabled people in work by 2027.
We help disabled people, including those with mental health conditions and learning disabilities, return to and stay in work through programmes including the Work and Health Programme, the new Intensive Personalised Employment Support Programme, Access to Work and Disability Confident.