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Leaders from across business and civil society have welcomed the Government strengthening employment protections.

• Updated: 6 April 2024

£64 million of funding will be available to local partners of health and disability support services.

• Updated: 29 November 2023

• WorkWell: Letter to Integrated Care Systems on the new service

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A bold new vision for welfare backed by nearly £30 billion has been set out by Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride.

• Updated: 24 November 2023

A new ‘Chance to Work Guarantee’ will transform the prospects of millions of people currently out of work, supporting them to realise their aspirations and potential.

• Updated: 22 November 2023

New Back to Work Plan to help up to 1,100,000 people with long-term health conditions, disabilities or long-term unemployment to look for and stay in work.

• Updated: 16 November 2023

Hundreds of thousands of disabled university and higher education students are set to benefit from a new Government planner to help ease their transition into work.

• Updated: 15 November 2023

Up to 25,000 people will benefit from new employment support starting today as part of the Government’s flagship Universal Support programme.

• Updated: 12 September 2023

New plans to improve the lives of disabled people have been set out by the Government today (Tuesday 18 July).

• Updated: 17 July 2023

New support scheme to help smooth the way for injured or disabled ex-military to return to work.

• Updated: 11 July 2023

The UK’s Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, Tom Pursglove MP, set out his ambition to make the UK the most accessible place in the world for disabled people to live and work at a UN conference in New York.

• Updated: 15 June 2023

More than six million disabled people in the UK will receive their one-off £150 Disability Cost of Living Payment from 20 June.

• Updated: 18 May 2023

A new review designed to boost the employment prospects of autistic people has today been launched by the Government.

• Updated: 1 April 2023

GAD's analysis of the Spring Budget 2023 focuses on pensions taxation, pension fund investment and retirement planning.

• Updated: 17 March 2023

Plan to build on government’s leading work improving the lives of disabled people in areas such as technology, sport and global leadership.

• Updated: 2 December 2022

New online service will give employers the tools they need to empower and encourage disabled employees and those with health conditions.

• Updated: 17 October 2022

A new £7.6 million government initiative has been launched to help over 2,000 adults with learning disabilities and autism move into work.

• Updated: 17 August 2022

Our colleagues discuss the work they've been undertaking during the programme

• Updated: 21 July 2022

Minister for Disabled People, Chloe Smith delivers roundtable intervention at Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

• Updated: 16 June 2022

On Wednesday 18th May 2022, Minister for Disabled People Chloe Smith gave a speech to open a Disability Confident Jobs Fair at Hillman Street Jobcentre Plus.

• Updated: 18 May 2022

The government’s goal to see one million more disabled people in work has been reached, the latest official figures show.

• Updated: 17 May 2022