Into Work

Your views matter!

The House of Commons Women and Equalities Select Committee has opened a call for evidence on the topic of flexible working and disability.

Complete our survey to share your lived experience as a disabled or neurodivergent person, or someone with a long-term health condition, accessing employment.

Responses to this survey will inform Into Work's submission to the committee.

Deadline for submissions: 5th June 2026

Share your experience here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/g1eL9KuW6B

Vacancy: Employment Adviser: Disabled Adults (All in Edinburgh)

Hours
25 hours to full-time. Flexible options will be accommodated.

Salary
FTE: £26,921 rising to £28,356 after 1 year.

Closing date
June 8, 2026 9:00am

Interview date(s)
June 23, 2026
June 24, 2026

Find out more and apply on our website: https://intowork.org.uk/about/vacancies/vacancy/employment-adviser-disabled-adults-all-in-edinburgh/

Registration open: Aut Support Works! Open Sessions.

This series of autistic-led online sessions will provide tools and insights to help improve your working life. Understand what it means to be autistic and how to navigate different stages of employment – from applying for jobs to progressing your career.

Taking place on Mondays, between August-October 2026.

All sessions are free and take place via Zoom. Book for as many as you would like on our events page.

Visit: intowork.org.uk/events

This Deaf Awareness Week (4 -10 May), we are focusing on the job gap for Deaf people.

According to the RNID, only 37% of people who report BSL as their main language are in work, compared with 77% of those who are not disabled under the Equality Act.

This issue isn’t about ability; it’s about access.

Simple changes like captions, BSL interpreters, and clear communication can help make workplaces more inclusive for everyone.

Find out more: https://rnid.org.uk/deaf-awareness-week/

The Scottish Parliament election is a week away, and the six major parties have all set out their priorities in manifestos.

We’d like to throw two more into the mix.

First, the Third Sector Employability Framework’s manifesto, which pursues their vision of an employability eco-system where local third sector services are trusted and supported to play a central role in tackling poverty and helping to grow fair, sustainable communities and Scotland’s economy.

The second manifesto, produced by our Autism Advisory Group, embodies the TSEF’s call to value lived experience. With the aim of making work neuro-inclusive, the manifesto sets out asks including improved employer training and greater support to recruit, retain, and progress autistic talent.

Regardless of the outcome of next week’s election, we look forward to working with the next Scottish Parliament and Government to close the disability employment gap!

Kat Allen, our Lived Experience and Training Lead, shares with midspace.co.uk - Midlothian's Mental Health Information Website how our Aut Support Works! Service is empowering autistic jobseekers.

This Autism Acceptance Month, we’re celebrating local organisations that are empowering and supporting autistic people.

This time: Kat from Into Work

Into Work support disabled and neurodivergent people, and those with long-term health conditions, to achieve their employment goals and potential.

We asked Kat, a Lived Experience and Training Lead, to share a bit about how their Aut Support Works! Service is empowering autistic jobseekers:
https://midspace.co.uk/stories/kat-from-into-work-we-know-how-important-work-can-be-for-peoples-mental-health/

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