Charlotte Cane

Charlotte Cane

Liberal Democrat — Ely and East Cambridgeshire

Speaking in the House of Commons on 9 September 2025

Debate

Neurodivergent People: Employment

Contribution

I do agree and will speak about that. Local businesses have described employing people with learning disabilities to me as like a game of bureaucratic hopscotch. They can see the end goal but they need to hop from square to square, assessment to assessment, with a lack of resources to dedicate to training staff. Sadly, that is borne out in the data. Under 30% of people with severe or specific learning difficulties were in employment in 2023-24, compared with more than 82% of non-disabled people. Those figures are bad enough in isolation, but just 65% of employees with severe or specific learning difficulties remain in employment for at least a year.

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