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Singapore expands learning and job support for people with disabilities
Singapore’s disability agency, SG Enable, announced new initiatives on Oct 12 to widen learning and work opportunities for people with disabilities.
A new advisory committee will bring together people from disability, training and employment sectors to help make courses accessible and relevant to learners and employers.
A sector training programme will give participants a more structured path from skills training to jobs, including chances to visit workplaces and explore different roles.
First tested in hospitality, the programme is set to expand to food and beverage, logistics, information and communications technology, healthcare, and human resources and administration.
SG Enable expects to train and support 800 people through it from 2026 to 2030.
The agency will also extend a 95 per cent course fee grant to eligible mainstream training, and help educators and providers improve their disability awareness and make courses more accessible.
The measures are part of Singapore’s wider effort to support people with disabilities through learning, employment and different stages of life.
SG Enable announced initiatives to expand lifelong learning and employment opportunities for people with disabilities in Singapore on Oct 12, 2026.
The initiatives include a new advisory committee on continuing education and training for people with disabilities.
A sector train-and-place programme will provide a structured path from skills training to employment and expand beyond hospitality.
SG Enable expects to train and support 800 people with disabilities through the programme between 2026 and 2030.
The agency will extend a 95 per cent Course Fee Grant to eligible mainstream training courses.
- Who
- SG Enable announced the initiatives for people with disabilities in Singapore.
- What
- The initiatives expand access to lifelong learning and employment, including through an advisory committee, training programme and course-fee support.
- When
- Oct 12, 2026.
- Where
- Singapore. The announcement was made at the Inclusive Lifelong Learning Festival at Enabling Village in Lengkok Bahru.
- Why
- To increase learning and employment opportunities and ensure training keeps pace with learners’ and employers’ needs.
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Regardless of the pathway they take, learning will continue to play an important role at every stage of life for all persons with disabilities
For some, moving into work takes more than job matching alone
This means more persons with disabilities can upskill alongside their peers, without cost as a barrier
The sector train-and-place programme was first piloted in hospitality.
Recommendations by the Taskforce on Assurance for Families with Persons with Disabilities were announced.
SG Enable rolled out initiatives to expand learning and employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
The train-and-place programme is set to expand to five more industries.
SG Enable expects to train and support 800 people with disabilities through the programme.
- Advisory committee
- Continuing Education and Training for people with disabilities
- Initial programme sector
- Hospitality
- Expansion sectors
- Food and beverage, logistics, information and communications technology, healthcare, and human resources and administration
- Expected programme reach
- 800 people with disabilities from 2026 to 2030
- Course Fee Grant
- 95 per cent for eligible mainstream training courses
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