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<p>The Government is committed to improving employment outcomes for disabled people.
Improving Lives: The Future of Work, Health and Disability is our strategy for helping
people with disabilities or health conditions enter and remain in employment. It includes
details of a wide range of programmes and initiatives that will help support disabled
people, in making a successful transition to employment. For example:</p><p> </p><ul><li>The
Work and Health Programme will provide innovative support for around 275,000 people
over five years. The majority of people of starting on the programme (around 220,000)
will be disabled people, who can volunteer for the programme at any time.</li></ul><p>
</p><ul><li>The Personal Support Package for people with health conditions and disabilities,
with a range of new interventions and initiatives designed to provide support that
is tailored to the individual needs of claimants.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Access
to Work is a demand-led, discretionary grant scheme which offers advice and in-work
support to disabled people, above the level of statutory reasonable adjustments. An
Access to Work customer may receive an award of up to £59,200 p.a. to pay for support
to help them to enter or retain employment. This can include help with getting to
work.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>Through the Disability Confident scheme, DWP is engaging
with employers, offering online guidance and helping to promote the skills, talents
and abilities of disabled people.</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>The new Intensive Personalised
Employment Support Programme, which will roll out by the end of 2019, will provide
highly personalised packages of employment support for disabled people, who are at
least a year away from moving into work.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Over the last 5 years
the number of disabled people in employment has increased by around 1.06 million since
Q2 2013, and currently stands at 7.7 million.</p>
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