June/July 2019 (vol. 16/1)

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The government has little idea about what works in supporting disabled people into work, no clear strategy for implementing its ‘10-year plan’ and no realistic target against which to measure performance.

An impressive-sounding target for getting one million more disabled people into work is not worth the paper it is written on’. That’s the response of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee1 to the National Audit Office’s (NAO’s) damning report on the government’s efforts to help people with disabilities enter, return to and stay in employment2. But no amount of government action in isolation is going to reduce the disability employment gap. In just two years, the government managed to set itself two different targets to narrow the gap between the employment rates of people with (51%) and without disabilities (82%): one that it had no hope of achieving and the other that it could not possibly be held to account for…

John Ballard is editor of Occupational Health [at Work].

Author: Ballard J

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