Sets out an approach to delivering the Government’s ambition of reducing the disability employment gap. Halving the disability employment gap would mean supporting over a million more disabled people into work than is the case today and improving a range of health and disability outcomes. This report shows that improving outcomes across the disability, health and work agendas is a complex issue and suggests that there are at least three broad types of individuals that might need support, including: disabled people out of work but close to the labour market; disabled people out of work and a long way from the labour market; and non-disabled people at risk of experiencing on set of health condition or disability or recurrence of fluctuating condition. The report highlights the clustering of disability in deprived and poor areas and areas with a history of industrial decline, suggesting that areas with high rates of disability could be facing other significant disadvantages that might make entry into the labour market more difficult. The report also questions whether work is always the desired outcome for those disabled people not currently in work, noting that for many disabled people, the severity of their health condition or disability make it extremely unlikely that work is a viable or attractive short (or even long)-term option. The report outlines a set of proposals for the short and long term that will help to deliver: adequacy - by ensuring that a combination of earnings and benefits provide adequate financial support and dignity for the individuals and families that need to use it; work for disabled people - this will mean the creation of a system that is adequately personalised and tailored so that it reflects the needs of different disabled people; and work for and with employers - by enabling them to fulfil their ambitions for a diverse, flexible and productive workforce.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Sets out an approach to delivering the Government’s ambition of reducing the disability employment gap. Halving the disability employment gap would mean supporting over a million more disabled people into work than is the case today and improving a range of health and disability outcomes. This report shows that improving outcomes across the disability, health and work agendas is a complex issue and suggests that there are at least three broad types of individuals that might need support, including: disabled people out of work but close to the labour market; disabled people out of work and a long way from the labour market; and non-disabled people at risk of experiencing on set of health condition or disability or recurrence of fluctuating condition. The report highlights the clustering of disability in deprived and poor areas and areas with a history of industrial decline, suggesting that areas with high rates of disability could be facing other significant disadvantages that might make entry into the labour market more difficult. The report also questions whether work is always the desired outcome for those disabled people not currently in work, noting that for many disabled people, the severity of their health condition or disability make it extremely unlikely that work is a viable or attractive short (or even long)-term option. The report outlines a set of proposals for the short and long term that will help to deliver: adequacy - by ensuring that a combination of earnings and benefits provide adequate financial support and dignity for the individuals and families that need to use it; work for disabled people - this will mean the creation of a system that is adequately personalised and tailored so that it reflects the needs of different disabled people; and work for and with employers - by enabling them to fulfil their ambitions for a diverse, flexible and productive workforce.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
disabilities, employment, labour market, welfare state;
SAYCE Liz, GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
Publisher:
Stationery Office
Publication year:
2011
Pagination:
150p.
Place of publication:
London
This report suggests changes to government policy in order to support disabled people to work in any role in any sector by doubling the numbers of people able to use Access to Work. It suggests raising the overall numbers securing specialist disability employment support to 100,000 within existing resources. This would be achieved by ensuring government funding is spent where it can have most impact, by better partnership working to maximise the contribution of government, employers, service providers and disabled people themselves; and by reducing the costs of assessments, driving down costs of services and equipment, encouraging suppliers to compete, empowering employees and employers to have far easier access to information, peer support and cost-effective solutions. Government-funded support would be focused on the person and their employer, not the facility, so disabled people can use that support in whatever type of employment they pursue.
This report suggests changes to government policy in order to support disabled people to work in any role in any sector by doubling the numbers of people able to use Access to Work. It suggests raising the overall numbers securing specialist disability employment support to 100,000 within existing resources. This would be achieved by ensuring government funding is spent where it can have most impact, by better partnership working to maximise the contribution of government, employers, service providers and disabled people themselves; and by reducing the costs of assessments, driving down costs of services and equipment, encouraging suppliers to compete, empowering employees and employers to have far easier access to information, peer support and cost-effective solutions. Government-funded support would be focused on the person and their employer, not the facility, so disabled people can use that support in whatever type of employment they pursue.
Subject terms:
labour market, supported employment, disabilities, government policy;
Great Britain. Department for Children, Schools and Families
Publication year:
2007
Pagination:
139p.
Place of publication:
London
This research provides an overview of the characteristics of the markets for disabled children’s services and identifies the barriers to their development and their suitability for individual budgets.
This research provides an overview of the characteristics of the markets for disabled children’s services and identifies the barriers to their development and their suitability for individual budgets.
Subject terms:
labour market, personal budgets, childrens social care, disabilities;
This briefing examines the characteristics of disabled people living in London and considers their relative position in the labour market. The analysis is based on Labour Force Survey data for 2001/02.
This briefing examines the characteristics of disabled people living in London and considers their relative position in the labour market. The analysis is based on Labour Force Survey data for 2001/02.
People Place and Policy Online, 14(2), 2020, pp.173-186. Online only
Publisher:
Sheffield Hallam University
Place of publication:
Sheffield
This article considers the disabled habitus and a small group of young disabled people who are attending an Alternative Provision (AP), within one English Further Education College. The aim of this article is to understand the significance of the body in relation to these students’ work to assemble and locate a vivid imagined future, and proposes that the college functions as a critical space where much of this body work gets played-out. The article draws on an ethnographic study of a group of school-aged, working-class disabled students; a group whose educational, employment and social outcomes are chronically stagnant in England. The article postulates that their inclusions in to a college have unintended effects and consequences, which illuminates some of the pernicious consequences of school exclusion. Despite several negative experiences, both inside and outside the AP, the article shows how young disabled people develop and appropriate capital to inform and disrupt the habitus. The article concludes with questions about APs as constituting the means to confer value upon young disabled students in search of identities that are apposite to paid employment within the contemporary (and future) labour market.
(Edited publisher abstract)
This article considers the disabled habitus and a small group of young disabled people who are attending an Alternative Provision (AP), within one English Further Education College. The aim of this article is to understand the significance of the body in relation to these students’ work to assemble and locate a vivid imagined future, and proposes that the college functions as a critical space where much of this body work gets played-out. The article draws on an ethnographic study of a group of school-aged, working-class disabled students; a group whose educational, employment and social outcomes are chronically stagnant in England. The article postulates that their inclusions in to a college have unintended effects and consequences, which illuminates some of the pernicious consequences of school exclusion. Despite several negative experiences, both inside and outside the AP, the article shows how young disabled people develop and appropriate capital to inform and disrupt the habitus. The article concludes with questions about APs as constituting the means to confer value upon young disabled students in search of identities that are apposite to paid employment within the contemporary (and future) labour market.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
young people, disabilities, labour market, school exclusion, communities;
FOLMER Christopher P. Reinders, MASCINI Peter, VEEN Romke J. van der
Journal article citation:
Social Policy and Administration, 54(5), 2020, pp.792-812.
Publisher:
Wiley
Disability policy in European countries is displaying a shift towards social investment: increasing human capital and access to the labour market. The reasoning that underlies this transition is that disabled persons would benefit from mainstream employment, but are impeded in traditional policy by deficiencies in labour supply and demand. However, the shift towards more activating policies in many countries is accompanied by a decline in social protection. It is unclear whether social investment may effectively promote the employment chances of disabled persons within this context. The present research examines this question through a quantitative, cross‐sectional, multilevel analysis on microdata from 22 EU countries. Our findings suggest greater activation to predict lower employment chances, while reducing passive support shows mixed effects. Conversely, measures for facilitation in daily life predict greater employment chances, as do measures for sheltered work. These findings raise questions over the value of social investment for disabled persons—and underline the need to overcome broader barriers in the labour market and in society.
(Publisher abstract)
Disability policy in European countries is displaying a shift towards social investment: increasing human capital and access to the labour market. The reasoning that underlies this transition is that disabled persons would benefit from mainstream employment, but are impeded in traditional policy by deficiencies in labour supply and demand. However, the shift towards more activating policies in many countries is accompanied by a decline in social protection. It is unclear whether social investment may effectively promote the employment chances of disabled persons within this context. The present research examines this question through a quantitative, cross‐sectional, multilevel analysis on microdata from 22 EU countries. Our findings suggest greater activation to predict lower employment chances, while reducing passive support shows mixed effects. Conversely, measures for facilitation in daily life predict greater employment chances, as do measures for sheltered work. These findings raise questions over the value of social investment for disabled persons—and underline the need to overcome broader barriers in the labour market and in society.
(Publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
disabilities, employment, benefits, labour market, sheltered employment;
Work Choice is a specialist disability employment programme which provides support to clients who, because of disability, cannot be supported through mainstream employment programmes. This research examined the success of transition from legacy programmes to Work Choice, and explored the impact of the commissioning process used to procure the provision. The report presents evidence drawn from several sources: qualitative interviews with Work Choice providers and DWP staff; mixed methods research with Work Choice clients; and analysis of DWP administrative data relating to specialist disability employment provision. Seventy qualitative interviews with Work Choice stakeholders conducted between late November 2010 and early February 2011. Eight out of 28 contract package areas were purposively sampled to take account of factors such as geography, labour market conditions, and the providers operating in the area. The report shows that a significant restructuring of the provider market has occurred through the commissioning of the Work Choice programmes, that the majority of delivery models included some element of delivery by the prime provider, and that providers were generally comfortable with the principle and level of outcome-based funding.
Work Choice is a specialist disability employment programme which provides support to clients who, because of disability, cannot be supported through mainstream employment programmes. This research examined the success of transition from legacy programmes to Work Choice, and explored the impact of the commissioning process used to procure the provision. The report presents evidence drawn from several sources: qualitative interviews with Work Choice providers and DWP staff; mixed methods research with Work Choice clients; and analysis of DWP administrative data relating to specialist disability employment provision. Seventy qualitative interviews with Work Choice stakeholders conducted between late November 2010 and early February 2011. Eight out of 28 contract package areas were purposively sampled to take account of factors such as geography, labour market conditions, and the providers operating in the area. The report shows that a significant restructuring of the provider market has occurred through the commissioning of the Work Choice programmes, that the majority of delivery models included some element of delivery by the prime provider, and that providers were generally comfortable with the principle and level of outcome-based funding.
Subject terms:
labour market, commissioning, disabilities, employment, financing;
Journal of Poverty, 15(1), January 2011, pp.88-107.
Publisher:
Routledge
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
For the last 20 years In the United States, social enterprises have existed to employ disadvantaged workers, including those with developmental or physical disabilities, and prepare them for work in the unsubsidised labour market. These Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for job training and employment of these workers.
For the last 20 years In the United States, social enterprises have existed to employ disadvantaged workers, including those with developmental or physical disabilities, and prepare them for work in the unsubsidised labour market. These Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for job training and employment of these workers. However, to date, very little systematic research has been conducted on WISEs. Using data from a national database of WISEs, this article provides an overview of the industries where WISEs are active and the jobs associated with those industries. Comparing these findings with results from a small pilot study, the article examines the employment conditions for client-workers and the strategies WISEs take to add value to the work experience to understand how WISEs attempt to create better working conditions for low-skill, disadvantaged workers. In conclusion, the author examines both the benefits and potential limitations of workforce development using the WISE model.
Subject terms:
labour market, social enterprises, staff development, disabilities, employment;
... of 2009 showed a small reverse but the figures remained higher than a year earlier. Important changes were introduced to the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation. There was no significant progress on the ratification of the UN convention. Two research studies appeared to confirm the weakness of the Polish system of vocational integration of persons with disabilities. The economic crisis has forced cuts in state funding for rehabilitation. However despite the economic crisis there was a significant rise in employees with disabilities in both open and sheltered labour; possibly as a result of the changes to the Act on Rehabilitation.
Focusing on Poland, this is one of a series of reports reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations. The overall disability rate in Poland is 11.8%. Both the employment rate and the activity rate of disabled people increased in 2008; 13.7% and 15.6% respectively. The Labour Force Survey for the first quarter of 2009 showed a small reverse but the figures remained higher than a year earlier. Important changes were introduced to the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation. There was no significant progress on the ratification of the UN convention. Two research studies appeared to confirm the weakness of the Polish system of vocational integration of persons with disabilities. The economic crisis has forced cuts in state funding for rehabilitation. However despite the economic crisis there was a significant rise in employees with disabilities in both open and sheltered labour; possibly as a result of the changes to the Act on Rehabilitation.
Subject terms:
labour market, disabilities, employment, equal opportunities, government policy;
This report, relating specifically to Estonia, is one of a series reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then briefly reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations.
This report, relating specifically to Estonia, is one of a series reviewing national implementation of the European Employment Strategy from a disability equality perspective. It provides an update as at November 2009 to a first report published in 2008. Evidence is summarised, along with a comment on the current economic crisis. It is then briefly reviewed in a standardised format under the following headings: academic publications and research reports; employment statistics and trends; laws and policies, type and quality of jobs; specific examples of good practice; and conclusions and recommendations.
Subject terms:
labour market, disabilities, employment, equal opportunities, government policy;