The DWP are rolling out voluntary support conversations for disabled claimants to 27 additional jobcentres, bringing the total to 33 sites.
The conversations are aimed at claimants assessed as having Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) as well as those who have yet to have a work capability assessment (WCA).
The hour long sessions are intended to identify barriers to moving into paid or voluntary work. As well as employment, they cover housing, debt, skills, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services. Support Conversations are delivered by Healthcare Professionals, Pathways to Work Advisers, and Disability Employment Advisers, and are available face to face, by video, or by telephone.
If you are invited to take part in a Support Conversation, you are free to refuse without it affecting your benefits.
List of confirmed sites (6 further sites to be confirmed shortly):
- Aberdare
- Berwick Upon Tweed
- Blaydon
- Bournemouth
- Didsbury
- Glenrothes
- Grimsby
- Hoxton
- Lancaster
- Leeds Park Place
- Leicester Charles Street
- Leicester Wellington Street
- North Shields
- Northwich
- Preston
- Rusholme
- Saltcoats
- Shettleston
- South Shields
- Southend
- Sparkhill
- Springburn
- Sunderland
- Thornaby
- WesterHailes
- Whitehaven
- Workington
