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We are delighted to announce that entrepreneur, Jamie Shields, is this year’s Lived Experience Speaker for the BASE Disability Confidence in Action Business Summit and the BASE Careers for All Conference.

Today, we see a change in Government and BASE welcomes the opportunity that this brings to change the public narrative around the unemployed, disabled and disadvantaged.

BASE and its members believe if people receive the right support, find the right job and are motivated to work, that anyone can work and have a good career. 

We’d like 2024 to be the start of a new approach to commissioning employment support that shifts the focus to:

Having a good job is the single most important thing in empowering people to have money, choices, friendships and dignity in life. It roots people in their communities and helps to ensure full inclusion in society. My goal has always been to support the movement of disabled people from dependency on segregated services to full social and economic inclusion. Professionalisation of the Supported Employment sector is critical to achieving this and employers can be our greatest allies.

Following yesterday's announcement of the Government's new Back to Work Plan , Laura Davis, BASE CEO has made the following comment

Disabled, neurodivergent and disadvantaged people need hope and support, not threats of losing their benefits.