Employers should be giving more support to disabled employees, department for work and pensions minister Lord McKenzie has said. Speaking at last week's Royal National Institute of the Blind conference in London, he called for "supportive cultures" in UK workplaces, which would help disabled graduates adapt more easily and would also look after existing employees. Lord McKenzie said: "Increasing the number of disabled people in mainstream employment has the potential to tear down the last barriers to social inclusion for diabled people." He added that the "necessary adjustments" which would help people with health impairments work successfully "will be neither as difficult nor as expensive as people think". Such an atmosphere of support could also benefit the working experience of all employees, he added. In related news, the Chard and Ilminster News recently reported that Somerset County Council would begin a new scheme to help disabled people gain work and training opportunities.
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