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<p>The Government delivers an extensive programme of initiatives to support disabled
people, and people with health conditions, including people with long-term health
conditions, to start, stay, and succeed in work. These include:</p><ul><li>Increased
Work Coach support in Jobcentres for disabled people and people with health conditions
receiving Universal Credit or Employment and Support Allowance;</li><li>Disability
Employment Advisers in Jobcentres offering advice and expertise on how to help disabled
people and people with health conditions into work;</li><li>The Work and Health Programme
and Intensive Personalised Employment Support, providing tailored and personalised
support for disabled people;</li><li>Access to Work grants helping towards extra costs
of working beyond standard reasonable adjustments;</li><li>Disability Confident, encouraging
employers to think differently about disability and health, and to take positive action
to address the issues disabled employees face in the workplace;</li><li>An online
Information Service called <a href="https://www.support-with-employee-health-and-disability.dwp.gov.uk/support-with-employee-health-and-disability"
target="_blank">“Support with Employee Health and Disability”,</a> providing better
integrated and tailored guidance on supporting health and disability in the workplace;</li><li>Increasing
access to occupational health, including the testing of financial incentives for small
and medium-sized enterprises and the self-employed;</li><li>Work in partnership between
the DWP and the health system, including:</li></ul><p>o Employment Advice in NHS Talking
Therapies, which combines psychological treatment and employment support for people
with mental health conditions; and</p><p>o The Individual Placement and Support in
Primary Care (IPSPC) programme, a Supported Employment model (place, train and maintain)
delivered in health settings, aimed at people with physical or common mental health
disabilities to support them to access paid jobs in the open labour market.</p><p><strong>
</strong></p><p>Building on our existing programme, we announced a wide-reaching package
at the Spring Budget to support disabled people and people with health conditions
to work.</p><p> </p><p>New investment broadens access to additional Work Coach support
for disabled people and people with health conditions, introduces a new supported
employment programme (Universal Support) and focuses on providing faster access to
joined-up work and health support, including for mental health and musculoskeletal
conditions, the two leading causes of economic inactivity due to long term sickness.</p>
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