British Association for Supported Employment

Strategy

Submission to CSJ Disability Commission

Publisher:

BASE

Topics:

Strategy

Year of Publication:

2020

Type:

Report

BASE has submitted evidence to the Centre for Social Justice's Disability Commission. The Disability Commission will issue their report later in 2020.

Engage to Change briefing: Policy changes needed in Wales

Publisher:

Charities

Topics:

Supported employment, Strategy, Wales

Year of Publication:

2020

Type:

Report

This briefing paper, written by Dr Steve Beyer, makes recommendations for the Welsh Government about how to improve employment support for people with autism and/or a learning disability. It draws on learning from the Engage to Change programme, a project for young people 16-25 years who are NEET (or at risk of becoming NEET) and have a learning difficulty, learning disability and /or autism.

Vienna Declaration sets out path to implement UNCRPD Article 27

26/06/19

A coaltion of European associations has set out a series of recommendations about disability and employment support in a document known as the Vienna Declaration.

Strategies for the Implementation of the UN CRPD (Vienna Declaration)

Publisher:

Supported Employment Associations

Topics:

Strategy

Year of Publication:

2019

Type:

Report

The Vienna Declaration sets out a number of recommendations aimed at the European Union, member states and providers of employment support.

New cross-Government focus on disability

26/06/19

The Government has launched a new cross-government approach on disability.

Scotland publishes Disability Employment Action Plan

14/12/18

The Scottish Governnment has published its Employment Action Plan for people who have a disability.

With only around 40% of working age disabled adults in employment, compared with more than 80% of non-disabled adults, the new funding is part of an action plan outlining how this gap can be at least halved over the next 20 years. The plan sets an initial ambition to increase the employment rate of disabled people to 50% by 2023 then to 60% by 2030.

The action plan also includes:

Scottish task group recommends employment action

06/12/18

The Scottish Commission for Learning Disability (SCLD) has today published the Employment Task Group report to Scottish Government Ministers.

The report, titled The Route to Employment for People with Learning Disabilities in Scotland, explores what needs to be done to create more and better employment opportunities for Scots with a learning disability.

The report states 4 priorities for action:

Improving Lives Programme (Welsh Government)

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Strategy, Wales, Learning disabilities

Year of Publication:

2018

Type:

Report

The Improving Lives Programme was established by the Welsh Government to review how well people with a learning disability are supported throughout their lives. The document contains a number of recommendations in Appendix 2.

Wales launches new learning disability strategy

28/06/18

Welsh Social Care Minister, Huw Irranca-Davies, has announced a new strategy to transform support for people with a learning disability to ensure they have what they need to lead successful lives.

Parliamentary briefing: People with disabilities in employment

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Strategy

Year of Publication:

2018

Type:

Guidance

This House of Commons Library briefing summarises the key statistics available on disabled people in employment in the UK.

Headline Figures

There were 3.5 million people of working age (16-64) with disabilities in employment between April and June 2017, an employment rate of 49.2%. The employment rate for people without disabilities was 80.6%.

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