Access To Work: Good News
I’ve just seen this Tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/michelelataylor/status/99103338259415040
This is good news. I used the Access To Work scheme in my last job. It paid my transport costs.
On a much less personal note, I think the scheme is a great idea that should hopefully encourage disabled people to do as much work as possible. So I think as much money as possible should be allocated to the scheme and to raising awareness of it- there are many disabled people who don’t even know it exists.
There are, like everything else, disadvantages to AtW- the biggest one being that they don’t support you unless you’re doing paid work. So employers also need to be made aware of the scheme. We can only hope that knowing that some of the extra costs of hiring a disabled person may be met by the Government would make employers more willing to employ disabled people.
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