Called ‘Work in Progress’ the report is co-written with Scope, RNIB, Mind and Mencap and calls on the government to urgently rethink employment support for people with disabilities.
The report makes a number of practical recommendations for the Department for Work and Pensions, the government department with overall responsibility for employment support, including:
- There needs to be greater involvement of employers in the design and delivery of employment support;
- The Government should incentivise greater localisation of employment support for disabled people in order to stimulate innovation;
- A more targeted approach should be taken for young disabled people who face particular challenges and often cannot access effective support.
Despite the £320 million invested in specialist disability employment support every year, local examples of good practice are being stifled by a lack of funding and there remains a particularly urgent need to increase and improve provision for young people, many of whom lack good employment opportunities. Action on Hearing Loss’ Laura Ringham blogs about it here.
This report comes hot off the heels of news from the Snowdon Trust that deaf students opportunities are limited by caps on funding for support and some deaf people don’t even mention it if they want a chance of an interview..
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Linda Richards
July 9, 2013
Reading about this did nothing to excite me but, okay, let’s see this document and get a sense of what it’s about.
Oh dear, I am appalled that all five of the organisations involved have signed off a publication that is inaccessible to the client groups they purport to serve. It is not written in English, never mind plain English containing inaccurate use of English, silly phrases and words which are meaningless or need further explanation. So, a barrier before we can even find out what these charities are saying “on our behalf”…..
Were Deaf people or members of the other disability groups represented here even involved in reading this publication?
nathan
July 9, 2013
It will not make any difference. Vast amount of discrimination out there, which cannot be “proved”. The truth hurts.