Current status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 9 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses received disability and autism awareness training as a result of Scotland's Employer Recruitment Incentive (SERI).
Scotland's Employer Recruitment Incentive (SERI) provides a financial incentive to employers to recruit a young person with additional barriers to employment. It does not provide funding for awareness training.
The Scottish Government has provided separate funding to the Open Doors Consortium in 2016-17 and 2017-18 to provide a range of tailored in work support options to for employers to encourage the recruitment and increase the retention of young people with additional barriers to employment This includes disability and autism awareness training.
To date the Open Doors Consortium has delivered 226 disability and autism awareness training sessions to employers.