The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today held the first of four oral evidence sessions for its inquiry into Employment support for disabled people: Access to Work.
The session began at 9:30am, on 2 July 2014, in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House.
You can view the evidence session at http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=15674
Those presenting evidence:
- Mike Adams OBE, Chief Executive Officer, ECDP (Essex Coalition of Disabled People) and former Chair of the Government’s Access to Work expert advisory panel
- Liz Sayce OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Disability Rights UK, and author of the 2011 independent review of specialist disability employment support
Purpose of the meeting
- Progress in raising the employment rate of disabled people
- The key recommendations of the Sayce Review and the Access to Work expert advisory panel, and
- Steps taken so far towards implementation
The Committee plans to hold three further evidence sessions for this inquiry; these are provisionally scheduled as follows:
- Wednesday 3 September at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC
- Wednesday 15 October at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC
- Wednesday 29 October at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC