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<p>The Government is committed to supporting claimants with special educational needs
move closer to the labour market or into work.</p><p> </p><p>Our new Local Supported
Employment (LSE) service aims to help people with learning difficulties and/or autism
to find and retain work. It uses the “place then train model” providing individuals
with intensive one-to-one support to succeed with an employer. We are working with
29 local authorities across England and Wales to deliver LSE up until March 2025.
The aim of LSE is to develop a sustainable model for delivering Supported Employment
that can help increase the number of supported jobs delivered by local authorities.</p><p>
</p><p>Supported Internships are aimed at helping young people with a learning disability
and/or autism who have an Education, Health and Care Plan to gain the work experience
they need to move on to employment. Supported Internships usually last for 12 months.
Support from a specialist job coach and other costs may be funded through Access to
Work if necessary. Whilst the Department for Education lead on Supported Internships,
the Department for Work and Pensions provides support through the Access to Work funding.</p><p>
</p><p>Additional Work Coach support for health journey claimants is a new Work Coach
led support offer, which aims to help more disabled people and claimants with a health
condition into, and towards, work. This trial of additional Work Coach support is
initially available across a third of Jobcentres in England, Scotland and Wales, with
plans for the support to be rolled out to claimants in other areas from 2023. Our
Disability Employment Adviser (DEA) role delivers direct support to claimants who
require additional work-related support and advice above our core Work Coach offer.
DEAs continue to support all Work Coaches to deliver tailored, personalised support
to all claimants with a disability or health condition.</p><p> </p><p>People in particular
disadvantaged groups continue to benefit from support through the increased Flexible
Support Fund and priority early access to the Work and Health Programme. Intensive
Personalised Employment Support provision provides highly personalised packages of
employment support for disabled people who want to work but have complex needs or
barriers and require specialist support to achieve sustained employment. Access to
Work is a demand-led discretionary grant scheme that provides funding for the extra
disability-related costs people have when starting work, or maintaining employment.
It can also support disabled people on an apprenticeship, traineeship, or Supported
Internship.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with employers to encourage them to become
Disability Confident. The Disability Confident scheme encourages employers to think
differently about disability and health and to take positive action to address the
issues disabled employees face in the workplace.</p>
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