Employability Programmes

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Siân Gwenllian Siân Gwenllian Plaid Cymru 1:32, 13 December 2017

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People with mental health issues have particular difficulties in finding routes to work or back to work after a period of illness. One way of facilitating access to the workplace is to offer work placements, which would mean that they wouldn’t need to go through the traditional process of interview and the anxiety and stress that that can lead to. What attempts has the Government made to encourage work placements of this kind, and will we see that kind of approach in the employment action plan that you mentioned, because that would facilitate and support individuals with mental health issues to rejoin the workforce?