For Employers
What can AtW do? Fund communication support for a disabled or deaf candidate who needs it at a job interview. Meet up to 100% of the costs of making adjustment to ensure that a disabled person you appoint (or someone who’s been working in your organisation for less than 6 weeks) can work in your organisation. Meet up to 80% of the costs (after the first £300) of ensuring that an employee who acquires an impairment can be retained in your organisation. Give advice on re-designing a job for a disabled candidate or an existing employee who becomes disabled. Give advice on work-based strategies and systems for managing an employee’s impairment. Offer a tailored package of support rather than off the shelf solutions. Offer funding which is for 3 years in the first instance.
Guarantee that you are meeting your duties under the DDA. Relieve you of your normal employers’ duties to implement Health and Safety regulations. Provide help towards meeting the costs of any adjustments or equipment that has a general business benefit for your organisation - the business benefit costs will be estimated and deducted from the total before the proportion that AtW will fund is decided. Reimburse you for equipment you have bought or support you have paid for before a grant has been authorised.
Support falls into 6 categories:
An individual may be eligible if they are disabled, within the DDA definition of a disabled person or, if they are not disabled according to this definition, they may be eligible if they have an impairment which affects their functioning only at work and they need communication support to perform at an interview for a job or they are in work or they are self-employed and they need support to progress in their job or take up a new job on an equal basis with non-disabled people and they are resident in Great Britain, excluding Northern Ireland and they will not receive Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disability Living Allowance whilst you are in work and they are over 16 
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If the Government is serious about tackling employment inequalities of disabled people this is something positive they can do to empower disabled people to contribute to society and the economy through more and better resourced employment opportunities.