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NHS Easy Read Recruitment Resources

Publisher:

Other organisations

Topics:

Recruitment, Learning disabilities

Year of Publication:

2023

Type:

Easy read

PWC Youth Employment Index 2022

Publisher:

Other organisations

Topics:

Recruitment

Year of Publication:

2022

Type:

Report

The Youth Employment Index, produced by Price Waterhouse Cooper in collaboration with the Youth Futures Foundation, provides an important tool to measure, benchmark and monitor progress across the OECD in employing and training young people. This is key to identifying challenges and opportunities in specific economies.

Community Jobs Scotland - Third Sector insights

Publisher:

Policy & research organisations

Topics:

Third sector, Recruitment, Scotland

Year of Publication:

2022

Type:

Research

Community Jobs Scotland (CJS) is an employability programme that funds work placements in the third sector for young people with significant barriers to the labour market to gain experience and on the job training within the third sector. It has been in operation in Scotland for a decade and is funded by the Scottish Government and run by SCVO, who have provided the data analysed in this report.

47% of employers say there aren't enough disabled applicants

03/02/22

Global business collective, the Valuable 500, today announces new research showing that almost half of businesses believe that a key barrier to the recruitment and retention of disabled employees is the lack of candidates.

Consultation on disability workforce reporting

17/12/21

The Government has published a consultation on disability workforce reporting. The consultation is one of the commitments in the National Disability Strategy and will run until 25 March 2022.

The consultation seeks views on how employers with more than 250 employees might be encouraged to collect and report statistics about disability to make their workforces more inclusive. They want to build an evidence base to better understand:

1 in 5 employers unlikely to recruit disabled applicants

09/12/21

PageGroup, a global recruitment specialist, has published a study which shines a light on the wide range of perceived barriers facing disabled individuals in the world of work. During a period of candidate shortages across multiple sectors, PageGroup polled 1,000 business leaders to understand the obstacles their business faces when looking to hire disabled candidates.

The findings suggest the top five common barriers business leaders face are:

Hidden Talent: Employer toolkit for recruitment practice

Publisher:

Charities

Topics:

Recruitment

Year of Publication:

2021

Type:

Guidance

Here's one we missed when it was originally published. Greater Manchester's Hidden Talent team have published an updated version of their employer toolkit.

This learning resource provides easy-to-implement tips for employers. These can make recruitment processes more accessible for young people, ensuring a diverse range of talent is not overlooked. Although the focus is on opening up opportunity to young people with barriers to work, much of the toolkit's advice is good recruitment practice for any and all demographics.

Launch of a national Individual Placement Support recruitment hub

01/11/21

In the Long Term Plan (LTP), the NHS has committed to supporting 55,000 people with severe mental illness (SMI) through IPS services by 2023/24.

2021 Business Barometer published

07/10/21

The Open University has published its annual Business Barometer report for 2021.

The key points are:

Open letter calls for comprehensive youth employment support

31/08/21

BASE is one of 80 signatories to a letter to the Prime Minister calling on him to drive forward a coordinated cross-departmental approach to tackling short-term and long-term youth unemployment to ensure that there will be no ‘lost generation'.

The 80 organisations have come together through the Youth Employment Group to warn that despite government efforts for youngsters to get the help that they need to get into work through investment in employment support, education, training and jobs, the challenge for young people is far from over.

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