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The government has pledged £2 million to help disabled people take up work placements.
The Department for Work and Pension’s Access to Work scheme, which provides financial support towards the extra costs faced by disabled people at work, will be extended to cover all work experience placements, not just those organised through Jobcentre Plus.
Such costs include support workers, specialist aids and equipment and travel to work support.
“Helping disabled people get onto schemes like this is an important step forward in helping more disabled people into work and in making more employers disability confident,” said Paralympic double-gold medallist and Goldman Sachs intern Sophie Christiansen. “Both employers and disabled employees learn valuable skills when working together, with less risk involved.”
* Nineteen thousand people living in households potentially affected by the government’s cap on benefits have moved into work, the Department for Work and Pensions says.
Intensive support from Jobcentre Plus has led to 35,800 claimants taking up offers of extra help to find employment, the government added.
Part of the coalition government’s welfare reforms, benefits were capped at £500 a week for couples and single parents and £350 a week for single adults without children, between April and October this year and applied to combined income from the main out-of-work benefits.
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