What should I look at if I need reasonable adjustments at work in Great Britain?
Reasonable adjustments and Access to Work are often mentioned together even though they are different routes, which can make it harder to work out what to ask an employer for and when government support may also be relevant.
Scope before you act
Great Britain This scope signal is derived from the governed question wording for orientation only. It is not an eligibility, legal or clinical determination.
Current understanding
Acas is the current Great Britain guidance route in the catalogue for understanding, requesting and reviewing reasonable adjustments with an employer. Access to Work is a separate government route that may provide practical or grant-funded support beyond an employer's normal reasonable-adjustment duty. The two routes can interact but are not interchangeable, and individual legal or funding outcomes depend on the circumstances and current rules.
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What evidence is still needed
- Current Acas and GOV.UK evidence whenever employment law guidance, Access to Work rules or the relationship between the two routes changes.
- A reviewed Northern Ireland employment-adjustment route.
Where people may disagree
- What counts as a reasonable adjustment is circumstance-specific; a general guidance route cannot decide an individual dispute or guarantee that a requested change is legally required.
When this answer should be revisited
- Acas materially changes its reasonable-adjustments guidance.
- GOV.UK changes Access to Work scope or eligibility.
- A Northern Ireland equivalent is added to the catalogue.
Question provenance and review state
Practical discovery question assembled from the reviewed Acas reasonable-adjustments Resource, Access to Work Resource and related Concepts. The synthesis separates employer adjustment duties from the Access to Work funding/support route and does not give individual legal advice.