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Access to work blocked as disabled people remain unaware of initiative
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.8.03, 2003, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how many employers and disabled people are still unaware of the government's Access to Work scheme. Highlights the lack of publicity given to the scheme
Partners for progress: employers working with people with disabilities
- Author:
- BREUER Zoey
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 4(1), February 2000, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Over the past five years many mental health organisations have participated in the European Union's HORIZON programme - a sub-division of the employment community initiative. As a result of this programme many innovative schemes supporting disabled and disadvantaged people in obtaining and keeping jobs have been set up in Britain and across Europe. This article summarises the work that has been done to inform and persuade employers that it is in their interest to make use of the skills of disabled people.
Options for employment
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.7.93, 1993, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Enterprise Awards: winner of one of 'Community Care' journal's awards, PACT a community development agency in Sussex which responds to local needs of people who are mentally ill or who have physical or sensory disability has been able to collate an information directory of all the local employment initiatives within the area.
Shining path?
- Author:
- HAYES Derren
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.02.06, 2006, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Pathways to Work scheme, which has pioneered an approach to help incapacity benefit claimants back into work, has been hailed as a success by some and is set for expansion under government proposals. The author evaluates the success of the scheme.
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.
Making it work: inspection of welfare to work for disabled people; September 2001
- Author:
- GRIFFITHS Geoff
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 53p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Employment is an area where disabled people and people with mental health problems feel discrimination keenly. Opportunities for employment have a major impact on people's lives in terms of self-fulfillment, income and interactions in society. This national inspection report looks at services to promote employment for disabled people in eight local authorities.
Living the dream
- Author:
- SALE Anabel Unity
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.02.07, 2007, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Pathways Community Interest Company is a social enterprise providing personalised training to people with mental health problems and physical disabilities. They also work with employers to help them address discrimination. The author looks at the work of the company, which operates throughout Cheshire and the Wirral.
Back to life
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, December 2006, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
The Coventry Client Support Unit is currently working to help people with health problems and disabilities, including mental health and learning disabilities, back into employment, though its Healthy Horizons project. The four week programme of group and individual work has now been extended to 12 weeks. The author profiles the work and success of the Unit which was winner of the NIMHE Positive Practice 2005 award for diversity,
'Long-termness' with regard to sickness and disability: an example of the value of longitudinal data for testing reliability and validity
- Authors:
- COLLETT Tracey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 9(3), July 2006, pp.229-243.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Longitudinal data are used to explore the reliability of long-term illness measures using information on ‘long-term/permanent sickness or disability’ as recorded via the question on economic activity in the Census of England and Wales. Specifically it is asked ‘what evidence is there that individuals answer the item on long‐term sickness or disability in the same way at different time points?’. The research is based on data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS) and the responses of persons who reported long‐term sickness or disability in 1971 are tracked to see if they also reported long-term sickness or disability in 1981 and 1991. That a large number of people reported long-term sickness or disability at three Census points suggests that the measure was reliable. In addition, it is suggested that a degree of content validity has been achieved with respect to the understanding of the concept of ‘long-termness’. It is concluded that longitudinal data provide a valuable way of investigating the reliability and validity of frequently used categorical measures and can help to distinguish between the extent to which a phenomenon such as long-term sickness is ‘new’ or ‘ongoing’.
Impacts of the job retention and rehabilitation pilot
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot (JRRP) was undertaken to test out boosting the usual help for those off work due to sickness and ill health, to return to and retain their job. The report presents information about the experience of participating in the trial, and the second report provides a quantitative assessment of the impacts of the trial on return-to-work rates, health, and other measures. Key findings of the impact assessment were that this particular method of recruiting and assisting people to retain employment was not effective, the interventions had no significant impact on the group of people recruited into the trial across key return-to-work measures. Similar rates of return to work were observed in the intervention groups as in the control group. There were however some minor impacts, both positive and negative, on certain subgroups: specifically, improved return-to-work rates for those off work because of an injury; and lower return-to-work rates for those with mental health issues.