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Stigma shout: service user and carers experiences of stigma and discrimination
- Author:
- CORRY Paul
- Publisher:
- Time to Change
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- London
People with mental health problems identify employers as a key stigmatising group on the day government wants to push through scrapping Incapacity Benefit in their Welfare Reform Green paper. 80% of people with a mental health problem want to work - the highest want-to-work rate of any disabled group - but find employers won’t give them a chance. The Stigma Shout survey reveals 35% of people said employers create the most stigma for them. Almost 60% of employers won’t even consider employing someone with a mental health problem This highlights the glaring gap in government thinking on welfare reform. Scrapping Incapacity Benefit and introducing Employment Support Allowance (ESA) without tackling the root cause of worklessness – employers’ stigma – will leave people with a mental health problem caught between a rock and a hard place.