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Daniel Keane

Calls for businesses to become more inclusive for adults with learning disabilities

An office worker at a computer station (Stock image)

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Businesses have been urged to make their workplaces more inclusive for adults with learning disabilities after ministers announced a new initiative to help over 2,000 adults with learning difficulties and autism into work.

It comes as figures revealed that just 2 in 10 adults with autism are currently in employment, despite over 700,000 people in the UK having the condition.

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