Advice for people with disabilities and long-term conditions
Access to Work : is a government scheme which can give disabled people and their employers advice and support with extra costs which may arise.
Alcohol concern: is the leading national charity working on alcohol issues. Their goal is to improve people’s lives through reducing the harm caused by alcohol.
Arthritis Care : offers advice for people with arthritis in work or seeking to work.
British Heart Foundation: Free service from the British Heart Foundation that helps organisations promote health and wellbeing to staff.
Epilepsy Society : provides information on epilepsy and employment, including the Health and Safety Work Act 1974 and the Equality Act 2010.
Direct Gov : has information on disabled people’s rights.
HSE : has information on health and safety for disabled people.
Macmillan : supplies support and information about work and cancer.
Mencap : offers advice on finding work for people with learning disabilities.
Mind : produces a guide for people with mental health problems on surviving working life.
Multiple Sclerosis Society : offers advice on MS and employment.
Remploy : finds jobs in mainstream employment for disabled and disadvantaged people and employs disabled people in its own factories.
Rethink mental illness : helps people with mental health problems into paid and voluntary work.
RNIB : offers advice for people with sight loss in work or seeking to work.
Scope : has an employment service which supports people with disabilities who are seeking employment.
Shaw Trust : offers support for people with disabilities seeking to work.
World Cancer Research Fund: aims to reduce development of preventable cancers through improved health and wellbeing at work.
