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What works and looking ahead: UK policies and practices facilitating employment of disabled people
- Author:
- THORNTON Patricia
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 67p.
- Place of publication:
- York
There is unprecedented policy commitment to raise the employment level of disabled people, as part of a wider strategy to tackle poverty, social exclusion, discrimination and welfare dependency. Government is committed to evidence-based policy making, and this paper brings together detailed evidence from robust and high quality research on ‘what works’.
Desirable outcomes of of WORKSTEP: user and provider views
- Authors:
- MEAH Angela, THORNTON Patricia
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 110p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In this report disabled people said it was important to set themselves goals and experience achieving them. Achieving things through their jobs, they said, encouraged them to set goals outside work, like learning to travel independently or to drive. Going to work gave disabled people the chance to meet new people and make friends. This was especially important to people with learning disabilities who complained of feeling bored when ‘stuck at home’. The routine of work was important to people with mental health conditions. They said it offered a distraction from their condition and gave them a sense of an ‘ordinary life’. Disabled people said that having a job was a sign of ‘wellness’ and getting on with life.
Under occupied
- Authors:
- HIRST Michael, THORNTON Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.06.05, 2005, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Under a duty to promote equality of opportunity in the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, public authorities will have to act against systematic discrimination in employment of disabled people. Draws on the results of surveys which show that despite a rise in disabled employees in the public sector, there has been no change in the proportions of the disabled and non-disabled populations employed.
Employment for disabled people: social obligation or individual responsibility?
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, LUNT Neil
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 57p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Over the last five decades, the principle which underpins policy for the employment of disabled people has remained constant, the majority of disabled people are fully employable on their own merits in competition with non-disabled workers, providing that prejudice and discrimination are overcome. However, the mechanisms by which that principle is put into practice have altered radically in the 50 years since the Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 19441 came into effect. A social obligation, at one time discharged by government - to oversee the translation of the principle into practice, and to monitor its effects, has given way to individual responsibility for action and to self-policing. In short, responsibility for achieving a fair share of employment for disabled people has passed from the state to the individual.