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The current situation of supported employment in Spain: analysis and perspectives based on the perception of professionals
- Authors:
- PALLISERA M., VILA M., VALLS M. Josep
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(6), October 2003, pp.797-810.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
At present, supported employment is emerging in Spain. It must be recognised that these programmes are more effective than the traditional sheltered structures, in accounting for the number of placements achieved in the mainstream employment market. Despite this fact, recent developments arising from social welfare policies do not encourage the consolidation of supported employment. This article briefly traces the evolution of employment integration of disabled people in Spain, and gives the results of research on professional workers in supported employment programmes. This data enables us to consider proposals to extend the experience of supported employment, thereby improving the employment situation of people with disabilities in our society.
Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit
- Authors:
- KEMP Peter A., DAVIDSON Jacqueline
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 31(2), March 2010, pp.203-221.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Incapacity Benefits (IB) were replaced in October 2008 with the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). This was done on the assumption that it would be a temporary benefit for the majority of people who claim it. After an initial medical assessment, new ESA claimants are allocated to one of two groups: those who have less severe or temporary conditions are allocated to the work related Activity Group, and are required to take active steps to prepare for a return to employment; and those considered to be severely disabled are allocated to the Support Group and are not expected to undertake work-related activities. This article examines the implications of the distinction between those claimants who potentially could do paid work and those for whom that outcome is much less likely. The authors, drawing upon baseline and follow-up surveys, examine the employment status trajectories of 1,843 new IB claimants in the year following their claim. The article examines three specific questions: who returns to work and what factors are associated with that outcome; how employable are the people who do not return to work and does their employability change during the first year of their claim; and among those who remained on IB after a year, what distinguishes people who classify themselves as permanently unable to work from those who do not? The article concludes with a discussion of the main findings, notably that location was a major factor in finding employment, and their implications for policy.
From Incapacity Benefit to Employment and Support Allowance: social sorting, sickness and impairment, and social security
- Authors:
- GROVER Chris, PIGGOTT Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 31(2), March 2010, pp.265-282.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This commentary examines the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) as a replacement for the main income replacement benefit, Incapacity Benefit (IB), for sick and/or disabled people in Britain. The authors argue that the process of claiming ESA, a process that is dependent upon medicalised perceptions of capability to work and which is aimed at managing the perceived economic and social costs of sick and disabled people, is a means of sorting sick and/or disabled people into subgroups of claimants. The authors go on to discuss the implications of their observations with regard to explanations of the disadvantages that sick and/or disabled people face and their implications for the income of such people. The authors conclude that because the shift from IB to ESA is premised upon a number of mistaken assumptions (such as the majority of claimants abusing the system by overstating the effect of their sickness or disability), it represents a retrograde development for people who are sick and/or who have impairments, potentially leaving a lot more claimants financially impoverished than under the old IB system.
Keeping track of welfare reform: the new deal programme
- Author:
- Millar Jane
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Since the 1997 election, the Labour Government has pursued an ambitious programme of welfare reform. Central to this are the New Deal programmes, aimed at getting people into work and helping them to stay in work. They include compulsory programmes for young people and the long-term unemployed, and voluntary programmes for lone parents and disabled people. This report provides the first overview of the key results, comparing the different New Deal programmes and placing them in the context of the broader frame of welfare to work policies. The research shows that there has been a positive impact on employment rates, and that participation in the New Deal often helps people improve their job-seeking strategies, confidence and skills. One of the main innovations, and central to the way participants perceive the New Deal, is the key role given to the ‘personal advisers’.
Opportunity or exploitation?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates the function of social firms in offering secure employment for people who are disadvantaged in the open labour market.
What is the problem, exactly? The distribution of Incapacity Benefit claimants' conditions across British regions
- Author:
- ANYADIKE-DANES Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 31(2), March 2010, pp.187-202.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Whilst there are notable differences in the spatial distribution of those claiming Incapacity Benefit (IB) in Great Britain, where the percentage of claimants to population is two to three times higher in the North than it is in the South, there are also marked regional differences in the relative importance of the medical conditions from which IB claimants suffer. For example, about one third of males in the South are unable to work due to mental and behavioural disorders, but the proportion in the North is under a quarter. The converse is true of diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue. As the roll-out of Pathways to Work gathers pace with its offer of a condition management programme to claimants, and the new regime for those unable to work due to sickness is introduced, those charged with planning and managing the re-activation of benefit claimants need to have a more spatially informed understanding of the dimensions of the problem they are to address. This paper seeks to address this information gap by examining the regional distribution of conditions and its connection to the regional distribution of claimant numbers, as applicable for both men and women.
A critical evaluation of the contradictions for disabled workers arising from the emergence of the flexible Labour market in Britain
- Author:
- JOLLY Debbie
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 15(5), August 2000, pp.795-810.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In Britain, as in all industrialised countries 'paid work' or employment is central to the economy of the state. This perspective raises important implications for theories of disability and work, and for further research in this area. This article attempts to provide a critical evaluation of the contradictions arising from the flexible labour market for disabled workers and how the concept of the Disabled State has been eroded along with notions of disabled people as the 'deserving poor'. Policies now demonstrate a commitment to a labour market free from restrictive practices and regulation. It appears that new technologies and specific personal communication skills, initiative, flexibility and adaptability will play an increasing part in new labour working trends.