Learning Disabilities: Labour Turnover and Recruitment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps she is taking to promote the recruitment and retention of people who have a learning disability in the (a) private and (b) public sectors.
Answered by Alison McGovern
Our specialist initiatives to support people with learning disabilities and other disabled people into work include support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers in Jobcentres. £12.3 million has also been invested into 23 lead Local Authority areas to provide support to autistic people and people with learning disabilities, under the Local Supported Employment Programme.
Under the Government’s new Get Britain Working Strategy, the forthcoming voluntary, locally led Supported Employment programme ‘Connect to Work’ will support disabled people, those with health conditions and other complex barriers including people with learning disabilities, to get into and on in work.
Employers play a key role in our efforts to supporting disabled people into work, including those with learning disabilities. Our support to employers includes a digital information service for employers to help them support disability at work, and the Disability Confident scheme. At present, there are over 900 public sector organisations signed-up to the scheme in total.
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