Give Adults with Autism and other Mental Disabilities More Employment Support

Closed 59 signatures

What the petition asks

85% of the 700,000 Autistic people in the UK are unemployed and disabled people in general are more than twice as likely to be unemployed. This is partly because many employers are reluctant to employ those with mental conditions they don't have any knowledge of and can't make reasonable adjustments

We propose the creation of a National Disabilities Employment Service to help people with physical and mental disabilities look for jobs and give them specialist training in basic workplace skills and knowledge. The service would also support disabled people while they're in work, offer free counselling services and provide disabilities training which would be compulsory for every employer and employee in the UK to have, whether they're private or public sector.

Timeline

10 Jun 2019	Petition opened for signatures
6 Nov 2019	Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 59

Status Closed

Opened 10 Jun 2019

Closed 6 Nov 2019

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