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<p>The Government strongly supports the need to provide more employment opportunities
to adults with a learning disability or autism.</p><p> </p><p>In 2015 3,140 individuals
with a learning disability started the Work Choice programme, with 61% achieving a
job outcome. 2016 annual data are not yet available. In 2015 the department introduced
Specialist Employability Support (SES) to provide up to a further 1700 places per
year intensive and personalised support for people, including those with learning
disabilities.</p><p> </p><p>Disability Confident works to influence employers to take
on more disabled people, including those with learning disabilities, and to market
Access to Work to disabled people.</p><p> </p><p>Access to Work has a new Hidden Impairment
Support Team which aims to give advice and guidance to employers, and offers eligible
workers an assessment of their needs at work and a support plan.</p><p> </p><p>Last
year, Paul Maynard MP led a taskforce that made recommendations to Government on how
to improve access to apprenticeships for people with learning disabilities. Department
for Work and Pensions and the Department for Education are working together to implement
all of these recommendations.</p><p> </p><p>Looking forward, we are testing ways to
improve our support for people with learning disabilities through a Local Supported
Employment proof of concept and Supported Work Experience for young people, which
offers young people with learning disabilities and other long term conditions a chance
to spend time with an employer.</p><p><strong></strong></p>
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