Two leading disability organisations have pledged to help hundreds of people with dyslexia find and remain in employment.

Remploy, the UK's leading provider of employment services for disabled people, and Dyslexia Action, the largest national provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties, are teaming up to help prevent dyslexia affecting employment opportunities.

Dyslexia Action will work with Remploy to provide screening, assessment, tuition, training and advice to jobseekers or people struggling with dyslexia in their workplace. Remploy also has the specialist employment services and key employer relationships to retain and support people into employment. The national agreement follows the success of a regional six month trial and will now feature in Dyslexia Actions’s 26 centres.

Shirley Cramer of Dyslexia Action, said: “Around ten per cent of the UK population is affected by dyslexia to some degree, with up to two million individuals severely affected. Remploy aims to annually find 20,000 jobs in mainstream employment for disabled people within the next five years and people with dyslexia often have abilities well above average in practical and technical tasks.

Stephen Dunn of Remploy, added: "This is a unique partnership in terms of its scale and the range of services that will now be available to candidates. Dyslexia should not be a barrier to gaining or staying in rewarding employment and we are confident that this new agreement will help many hundreds of people in the future."

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