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Gaining and retaining a job: the Department for Work and Pensions' support for disabled people
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. National Audit Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 59p.
- Place of publication:
- London
In 2004, of the 6.7 million disabled people of working age in Britain, 50 per cent were in employment compared to 75 per cent of the working age population as a whole. The Government has made a commitment to increase the employment rate of disabled people and to reduce the difference between their employment rate and the overall rate by 2006. This NAO report examines the barriers faced by disabled people in finding and retaining employment, the specialist programmes and schemes provided by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to address this issue, the quality and accessibility of support available, and the cost effectiveness of such schemes. The report finds that the DWP funds a broad range of schemes (which are managed by Jobcentre Plus and contracted out to a range of providers in the public, private and voluntary sectors) and is on course to meet its target for increasing the employment rate of disabled people. However, more progress is needed to ensure such programmes benefit a wider number of people.
Able to work: report of the National Employment Panel's Employers' Working Group on Disability
- Author:
- THOMPSON Mark
- Publisher:
- National Employment Panel
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 84p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The focus of this report is how to help as many disabled people as possible to fulfil their potential in the labour market. It sets out a clear vision of what the government wants to achieve and why it is so important. And it makes a wide range of recommendations, both for employers and for several different arms of Government, which will help to deliver that vision.
The Americans with Disabilities Act: a decision tree for social services administrators
- Authors:
- O'BRIEN Gerald V., ELLEGOOD Christina
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 50(3), July 2005, pp.271-279.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act has had a profound influence on social workers and social services administrators in virtually all work settings. This article provides a "decision tree" for administrators to assist with the evaluation of claims. This decision tree allows people who are considering the validity of an ADA claim to break the decision-making process into discrete steps that can be considered separately and sequentially. These steps include employee and disability status, employer knowledge of the disability, employee qualification for the job, the provision of accommodations, the adverse actions that may be included in a claim, valid employer rationales for adverse action, and the procedural elements required for a successful ADA claim. Issues that are important in each step are discussed.
Employers and the new deal for disabled people: qualitative research, wave 2
- Authors:
- ASTON Jane, et al
- Publisher:
- Corporate Document Services; Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 105p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Outlines the key findings of the second wave of qualitative research with employers regarding the New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP). It was part of a comprehensive research and evaluation programme into NDDP, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions and being carried out by a research consortium, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. This second wave of qualitative research with employers was carried out when NDDP had been operating nationally for two years. It follows on from the first wave, which was carried out 18 months previously, and is based on in-depth interviews with 50 employers, all of whom were known to have taken part in NDDP. These employers were selected on the basis that they were nominated by Job Brokers as examples of good practice. In addition, the research design ensured that the employers covered a range of geographical locations, employer types in terms of size, sector, etc., and types of Job Broker.
All aboard
- Author:
- BARTLETT Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.02.05, 2005, p.41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a scheme which employs disabled people in London to test the accessibility of buses and taxis. The scheme run by Westminster Employment Service (WES) in partnership with TNS Mystery Shopping and Transport for London won the Community Care Awards' disability category.
Disability and employment in Scotland: a review of the evidence base (full text)
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, TINKLIN Theresa, BANKS Pauline
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 148p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Disability and employment in Scotland: a review of the evidence base (summary)
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, TINKLIN Theresa, BANKS Pauline
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Social research
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The appointment
- Authors:
- DISABILITY RIGHTS COMMISSION, (Producer)
- Publisher:
- Disability Rights Commission
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- DVD
- Place of publication:
- London
This 10 minute comedy drama introduces us to Alan, a hotel manager, on the day he finds out that he has a common but life-altering health condition. The film explores how attitudes to disability and long-term health conditions can affect people's chances of getting and keeping a job - irrespective of their actual impact on work. And how the reactions of those around us - family, friends and work colleagues - can make us fearful of revealing important aspects of our lives.
Disabled people, the reserve army of labour and welfare reform
- Authors:
- GROVER Chris, PIGGOTT Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 20(7), December 2005, pp.705-717.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses why there has been a number of changes to income maintenance and labour market policy for disabled people. Taking a regulation approach theoretical framework it engages with the debate about whether disabled people can be considered to be part of the reserve army of labour. Rejecting previous broad-brush approaches that seem to suggest that all disabled people are part of the reserve army, it argues that the policy changes have been aimed at reconstructing non-employed disabled people as an important part of the reserve army in a period when labour markets are becoming tighter. In this sense disabled people are crucial to New Labour’s regulation of neo-liberal accumulation that is structured through a contradiction between economic stability and increasing participation in paid employment.
The scientific and conceptual basis of incapacity benefits
- Authors:
- WADDELL Gordon, AYLWARD Mansel
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 236p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The number of people on long-term incapacity benefits (IB) has more than trebled since 1979 despite gradual improvements in objective measures of health. The report asserts that many IB recipients are not completely incapable of work and many want to work, so reform of the system is a matter of social justice as well as expenditure. The aims of this report are to: develop a theoretical framework for incapacity benefits; analyse the developments and trends since 1948; and provide a putative evidence base for reform.