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Disability, health and access to training
- Author:
- FUMAGALLI Laura
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 58p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Providing adequate training for disabled people is a major objective of recent legislation against discrimination in the labour market for the UK. Using data from the 2004 British workplace employee relations survey, this detailed study analyses the determinants of training for disabled workers both at the individual and at the firm level – in terms of the likelihood of workers being trained by their employers and the length of training received. The findings conclude that disability can reduce the probability of receiving training, but has negligible effect on the duration of training if it is received. The authors propose that the findings pose a challenge for policy makers, who must make it possible for each employee to declare his health status, but on the other hand must set up preventions aimed at discriminating against disabled people.
An update to measuring chronic illness, impairment and disability in national data sources
- Author:
- WHITE Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Health Statistics Quarterly, 42, Summer 2009, pp.40-53.
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
This article reports progress in delivering a revision to survey questions on disability for implementation in 2010. The Office for National Statistics has relied on survey data to report and update annual estimates of disability-free life expectancy at national level. Changes in national legislation, a forthcoming European regulation and a number of inadequacies in the level of detail and consistency of disability data collected in household surveys (raised as part of the Review of Equality Data), will require its modification and extension to ensure survey data better reflect the growing data needs in the subject area of disability in the 21st Century. The accurate and reliable measurement of disability is increasing in importance following the revision to the Disability Discrimination Act in 2005 and the publication of a strategy to improve the life chances of disabled people. Of particular concern is the lack of data on impairment types and how impairments interact with social barriers erected by society and its institutions, leading to, or intensifying, the level of disability experienced by people with impairment or limiting illnesses.