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The employment issue
- Author:
- REYNOLDS Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Openmind, 153, September 2008, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Social Firms are providing real jobs and training opportunities for people with mental health problems. This article reports on their success and highlights the work of Pembrokeshire FRAME and Biz Match Ltd.
Living through exposure to toxic psychiatric orthodoxies: exploring narratives of people with 'mental health problems' who are looking for employment on the open labour market
- Authors:
- ROETS Griet, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 22(3), May 2007, pp.267-281.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores lived experiences and insights of five people with long-term 'mental health problems', focusing on their search for employment in a disabling society. The qualitative, inductive analysis investigates why it seems almost impossible to attain a status as respected adult workers. The authors present five central findings: (1) losing the game before it starts; (2) internalizing the vicious circle of victim blaming; (3) from control overload to a life with inadequate supports; (4) from crushed dreams back to passive inactivity; (5) signs of resilience and resistance. In meaningful dialogue survivors give voice to alternative and plural epistemological grounds of life with 'madness'. The concluding reflections argue that psychiatric discourses, what the authors term toxic psychiatric orthodoxies, silence, disable and construct survivors as unemployable.
Barriers and solutions in the workplace: raising employment rates for people with learning disabilities and mental health problems
- Authors:
- REMPLOY, ROYAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION
- Publisher:
- Remploy
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- Coventry
The RADAR/Remploy Task Force was been set up to find new ways of enabling people with learning disabilities and mental health issues to find jobs. This report represents the accumulation of six months analysis. It critically analyses both barriers and solutions across personal, system and environmental dimensions for both client groups. It draws on evidence from 97 case studies across Taskforce members as well as other specific reports and wider research in the field. In addition the report contains ‘good practice templates’ for both client groups that can be applied to a variety of employment related settings.
The disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publisher:
- TSO
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 91
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper marks a shift in the Government’s approach to the employment of disabled people and individuals with health conditions. The focus is to move away from supporting individuals in separated, segregated employment. Instead, the Government is looking to work with individuals and employers to ensure that the talents, skills and capabilities of disabled people and people with health conditions are given the opportunity to thrive. This paper sets out a range of proposals to further improve employment support, both for disabled people and for people with health conditions who do not consider themselves disabled. These include: supporting employers to recruit, retain and develop disabled people and people with health conditions; and enabling more young disabled people and people with health conditions to make a successful transition from education to employment. The paper proposes a new Gateway to employment services that will focus an individual’s particular strengths and support requirements, rather than health condition or benefit. Also proposed are improvements to specialist and mainstream offers of support, and developing more effective approaches for supporting people with mental health problems to get into work. Annexes include what works in supporting disabled people and people with health conditions back into work. Delivery plans are to be published in a further paper in 2014. (Edited publisher abstract)
Voluntary reporting on disability, mental health and wellbeing: a framework to support employers to report voluntarily on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Work and Pensions, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 12
- Place of publication:
- London
The voluntary reporting framework has been developed by the government in partnership with leading businesses and third sector organisations to support employers to voluntarily report information on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. It also sets out the benefits of increased transparency in the workplace, guidance on how data can be collected and where it can be reported, and links to further support. The aim is that greater transparency and reporting will act as effective leavers in creating cultural change and a more inclusive society. The framework is aimed at organisations with over 250 employees, but can be used by employers of any size. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health and employment
- Author:
- TRADES UNION CONGRESS
- Publisher:
- Trades Union Congress
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
Building on early TUC research and a 2016 analysis of official employment statistics, this report looks at the employment of disabled people, and in particular examines the employment of people with depression and mental health problems. The analysis shows that there is a significant difference in the employment rates of people with depression and mental health problems, compared to non-disabled people. The report argues that although the employment rate for disabled people is increasing, this is happening too slowly for the government to reach its 2015 commitment of halving the disability employment gap by 2020. It makes policy recommendations for both employers and government in order to help disabled people stay in work, ensure they have access to justice if they face discrimination in employment, and have the necessary support when they are unemployed and looking for work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Peer support for employment: a practice review
- Authors:
- SAYCE Liz, FAGELMAN Natasha
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights UK
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 63
- Place of publication:
- London
A companion report to The Work Foundation’s review of research evidence on peer support in employment, this report identifies practice examples of peer support to help people with long term health conditions or disabilities to secure, retain or progress in employment. Based on a survey and interviews the report identified over 50 practice examples. The Practice Review discusses different approaches under the following headings: who is involved and benefiting; the purpose of the initiatives (recruitment, retention, progression, and wider outcomes); and the type of approach used (on-to-one, support groups, paid or unpaid). It then highlights the impact of the practice examples, including evidence on outcomes. Practice Review finds promising peer support practice in relation to securing, retaining and progressing in employment, for disabled people generally and for people living with specific impairments. It also found a high demand for peer support, and those involved in the report found peer support for employment offers hope, additional confidence and a sense of achievement. The report makes recommendations to support and strengthen the practice of peer support for disabled people or those with long-term conditions in terms of employment. (Edited publisher abstract)
Peer support for employment: a review of the evidence
- Authors:
- McENHILL Libby, STEADMAN Karen, BAJOREK Zofia
- Publisher:
- The Work Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 30
- Place of publication:
- London
Reviews the evidence from eleven academic studies to explore how, and if, peer support is effective in supporting employment outcomes for people with long term health conditions and disabilities. The studies identified included support group-based peer support, one-on-one mentoring models and a work-based model, where peer support was offered by a peer adviser trained to provide support to colleagues. The review highlights elements of successful peer support programmes for employment. Direct outcomes considered in the studies include improved job retention, reduced sick leave, achieving a new job. Other outcomes included changes in participants; confidence, self-esteem and social skills. The review also identifies gaps in the existing research which include the relationship between direct and indirect employment outcomes and the costs of providing peer support versus the benefits. The paper concludes that although the evidence is at an early stage of development, it suggests that peer support can be a useful tool in achieving a range of employment outcomes - such as moving into work, returning to work after sick leave, and retaining a job - for people with a wide range of health conditions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working welfare: a radically new approach to sickness and disability benefits
- Authors:
- PICKLES Charlotte, et al
- Publisher:
- Reform
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper proposes structural reforms to the welfare system covering the gateway to, rate of and conditionality for out-of-work incapacity-related benefits. The package of financial and non-financial reforms detailed in this report collectively create a vision for a simpler and more effective out-of-work benefit system for people with health conditions. This is not about savings, but about creating a better system. Achieving the radically different employment outcomes desired by the Government demands a radically different approach – piecemeal changes to the current system will not work. The paper suggests that the government should set a single rate for out-of-work benefit. The savings from this rate reduction should be reinvested into Personal Independence Payment – which contributes to the additional costs incurred by someone with a long-term condition – and into support services. In addition, building on UC, the Government should implement a single online application for the benefit, including a ‘Proximity to the Labour Market Diagnostic’ to determine a claimant’s distance from work and a health questionnaire. Finally, the claimant and health adviser should, where appropriate, jointly produce a rehabilitation plan, and this should come with a personal budget. Those with mild or moderate health conditions that, with support, could be managed should be expected to take reasonable rehabilitative steps – some level of conditionality should therefore be applied. Employment advisers must be appropriately trained to support those claimants, and given a high degree of discretion in how they apply that conditionality. (Edited publisher abstract)
Provider-led pathways to work: net impacts on employment and benefits: working paper
- Authors:
- KNIGHT Genevieve, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 99p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The main objective of this impact study was to assess whether Provider Led Pathways helped more incapacity benefits customers move into work or leave benefit than would have done otherwise. The impact analysis was conducted using administrative data (Incapacity Benefits claims and HMRC employment records) and data collected from two large scale telephone surveys with 2007 and 2008 incapacity benefit claimants living in Provider Led Pathways areas and in matched comparison areas which did not have the Provider Led Pathways to provide the counterfactual of not participating in this programme. On average, interviews were conducted 14 months after the claim for benefits. Findings revealed that in Provider Led Pathways lowered the proportion of benefits claimants by two percentage points; there was no conclusive evidence of a Provider Led Pathways impact on employment, but there was some evidence that Provider Led Pathways raised employment, and it was estimated to raise HMRC employment by one percentage point; Provider Led Pathways had a statistically significant impact for men, but not for women, and for those who were less than 50 years old, but not for those aged 50 years and over; and for those with mental health conditions and those with other health conditions, the Provider Led Pathways raised the proportion off benefit by two percentage points.