DISABLED PEOPLE AND VOLUNTEERING

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That this House welcomes new research from Scope's Year of the Volunteer on tackling discrimination against disabled people in volunteering; notes that volunteering is a valuable route to other opportunities including training and paid employment; further notes the Government's aim to get more disabled people off benefit and into paid work; is concerned that there is no financial support for organisations to make reasonable adjustments for disabled volunteers and that as a result disabled people are under-represented as volunteers; and calls upon the Government to create a similar scheme to Access to Work to fund reasonable adjustments for disabled volunteers.