Report

Closing the Disability Skills Gap report

Publisher:

Policy & research organisations

Topics:

Disability, Education & training

Year of Publication:

2015

Type:

Report, Research

Disability Rights UK has published a summary of the Closing the Skills Gap reports. The report highlights their findings on the skills young disabled people need to get into employment; and on skills for people who acquire impairments or conditions during working life. Their findings, based on the two reports, stress: * the importance of peer to peer support * a need for disabled people to be able to exercise choice and control There are critical success factors from the 2 reports:

Realising Talent: A new framework for devolved employment and skills

Publisher:

Local Government

Topics:

Access To Work, Local Government, Policy, Work Choice, Work Programme

Year of Publication:

2015

Type:

Report

The Local Government Association has published Realising Talent: a new framework for devolved employment and skills. It is the final report in a collaborative series with the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion. It recommends options for the devolution of employment and skills, which LGA believes can be practicably implemented by a new or returning Government.

Welfare to Work Devolution in England

Publisher:

Policy & research organisations

Year of Publication:

2015

Type:

Report

This review, from Professor Dan Finn, examines the devolution of welfare-to-work policies in Britain, Canada, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany, and analyses proposals for further devolution in England. It finds that:: * Devolution of the Work Programme (WP) and other employment and skills services needs tailoring to local governance capacity and should be an explicit aim of City and Growth Deals. * More devolution of the working relationship between Jobcentres and local government is needed.

Evaluation of IPS alongside IAPT services

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Commissioning, Individual Placement & Support (IPS)

Year of Publication:

2015

Type:

Report

This report evaluates a scheme that provided employment support based on the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model, alongside the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. The pilot was 1 of 4 commissioned by the Department of Health and the Department for Work and Pensions based on recommendations in the 2014 report Psychological Wellbeing and Work: Improving Service Provision and Outcomes. It was designed to test service design, methods of tracking findings and initial effects.

Promoting contribution: Boosting employment opportunity for all

Publisher:

Policy & research organisations

Topics:

Fluctuating health conditions, Long-term unemployed

Year of Publication:

2015

Type:

Report

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a paper on improving support into the job market for people with health conditions and disabilities and those facing long-term unemployment, who face considerable disadvantages.

People with Learning Disabilities in England 2013

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Learning disabilities

Year of Publication:

2014

Type:

Report

The fourth annual compendium of statistics about the lives of people with learning disabilities. The report covers a wide range of information about population numbers, education, health and social care.

People with Learning Disabilities in England 2013, includes the main report and seven easy read summaries.

http://www.improvinghealthandlives.org.uk/publications/1241/People_with_...

The disability and health employment strategy: the discussion so far

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Disability, Mental health, Supported employment

Year of Publication:

2013

Type:

Report

The Government has published a discussion paper on the Disability and Health Employment Strategy. The paper sets out a range of proposals to further improve employment support. It will be followed in 2014 by publication of the government’s delivery plan. The proposals focus on: • supporting employers to recruit, retain and develop disabled people and people with health conditions; • enabling more young disabled people and people with health conditions to make a successful transition from education to employment;

Jobs First - evaluation reports

Publisher:

Central Government, Valuing People Now

Topics:

Learning disabilities, Personal budgets, Supported employment

Year of Publication:

2011

Type:

Report

This is the interim report into the Jobs First initiative; a pilot where seven sites tested the purchasing of specialist employment support using personal budgets.

Closing the gap

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Mental health, Access To Work, Disability Employment Gap, Work Choice, Work Programme, Health & Wellbeing, Supported employment, Individual Placement & Support (IPS)

Year of Publication:

2014

Type:

Report

The document Closing the Gap: Priorities for Essential Change in Mental Health outlines 25 areas for health and care services to take action which will make a difference to the lives of people with mental health conditions. These changes will mean that the system is fairer for people with mental health problems. The document aims to encourage the NHS to take mental health as seriously and treat it as importantly as physical health.

Community Data Toolkit ( Part 1)

Publisher:

Central Government

Topics:

Disability, Fulfilling Potential

Year of Publication:

2014

Type:

Report

This toolkit, created under the Fulfilling Potential banner, shows what data has been published about disability and how that data can be used. This is a toolkit created for Disabled Peoples User Led Organisations (DPULOs), other small organisations and charities. It aims to provide guidance to help organisations find and use data with confidence to support their work by, for example, the better targeting of services and/or resources to meet the needs of disabled people. There are three main chapters to the document:

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