The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that thousands more disabled people are set to benefit from a new package of support designed to help them into the work they want.Minister for Disabled People, Chloe Smith, confirmed that 15 Jobcentre Plus sites, including seven in Scotland, will be testing an autism framework, designed with the National Autistic Society (NAS), to transform the service available to jobseekers on the autism spectrum.
The framework pilot will aim to help people with autism find, retain and progress in fulfilling jobs.This comes as 26,000 work coaches in jobcentres across the country are undergoing specialist accessibility training, delivered in partnership with Microsoft, in a further effort to help
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