Autism Employment Review
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department’s policies of the recommendations in the Buckland Review of Autism Employment.
Answered by Alison McGovern
We welcome the independent Buckland Review focused specifically on autism and employment. We intend to build on this to meet our commitment to promoting awareness of all forms of neurodiversity in the workplace. We are gathering expert evidence on how best to improve employment for all neurodivergent people, including considering the Buckland Review’s findings.
Our assessment will also be informed by the independent employer review announced in the Get Britain Working White Paper. The review will consider what more can be done to enable employers to promote healthy and inclusive workplaces, recruit and retain disabled employees or employees with a health condition, and support people to stay in or return to work from periods of absence.
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