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<p>The Government is committed to improving employment outcomes for people with autism.
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 several initiatives that will help support disabled people, including people
with autism, 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, including people with autism, 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, including people with autism</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, including those with autism, 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, including people with autism and
associated hidden impairments</li></ul><p> </p><ul><li>We are also continuing to build
on local initiatives in jobcentres, to ensure that we deliver a consistently supportive
service across Jobcentre Plus. For example, as part of Autism Awareness Week in April
2019, we introduced short “Bitesize” Autism Awareness Learning for work coaches and
promoted Calm and Quiet Sessions in jobcentres.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Looking forward,
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, including those with autism, who are at least a year away from moving
into work.</p><p> </p>
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