AQW 4269/22-27

Mr Nick Mathison
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 07/10/2022
Answered On Date: 18/10/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the creation of a new Disability Employment Strategy.

Answer:

The Department is within the final development stages of the next Disability and Work Strategy, which will set a long term commitment to increasing the rate of employment for people with disabilities.

In developing the Strategy, the Department has embarked upon an extensive process of co-design of interventions with the disability sector, central and local government, employers and those with disabilities, supported by newly commissioned labour market research.