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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’.
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- 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.
Helping disabled people to work: a cross-national study of social security and employment provisions; a report for the Social Security Advisory Committee
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, SAINSBURY Roy, BARNES Helen
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office/University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 164p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research paper presenting a comparative study of the employment of disabled people, focusing in particular on the need to be flexible in terms of hours worked and breaks needed. Also looks at the disabling effects of many working environments.