National Theatre and RSC directors among signatories to letter decrying proposed changes to Access to Work scheme

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More than 2,500 figures from the arts including leaders at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company have signed an open letter stating that the government’s proposed changes to the Access to Work scheme could “risk disabled people being excluded from the workforce entirely”.

Indhu Rubasingham, the artistic director of the National Theatre, and Tamara Harvey and Daniel Evans, the co-artistic directors of the RSC, were among the signatories, who said the changes would have a “devastating impact” on disabled employment rates in the cultural sector.

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