Where can I look for disability-related support if I am trying to find paid work in the UK?
Job-search support and workplace support are different needs, and people may encounter Access to Work before they know whether they need help finding a role, starting one or staying in work.
Current understanding
Scope Support to Work is a current UK programme in the catalogue for disabled people aged 16 or over who are looking for paid work and meet its access requirements. Access to Work is a different government route focused on practical support connected with work. Which route is relevant depends on whether the immediate problem is finding work, starting work or getting support in a job.
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What evidence is still needed
- Current Scope eligibility and delivery information whenever the programme changes.
- More reviewed employment-support routes, including local and specialist options and routes for people who cannot use the current programme's online/telephone format.
Where people may disagree
- A national employment programme may not fit people who need intensive, local, communication-accessible or condition-specific employment support.
When this answer should be revisited
- Scope changes or closes Support to Work.
- Access to Work changes its employment-stage or eligibility rules.
- New reviewed UK employment-support programmes are added.
Question provenance and review state
Practical discovery question assembled from the reviewed Scope Support to Work and Access to Work Resources. It distinguishes job-search support from workplace support after or around entering employment.