Learning and Work Institute produce two new reports demanding radical action on halving the disability employment gap.
Learning and Work will be producing two reports at IntoWork 2016:
- Halving the Gap: Making the Work and Health Programme work for disabled people will detail our proposals on how the Government’s new flagship employment programme can deliver unprecedented employment opportunities for disabled people and people with health conditions.
- Power to the People: The case for personal learning accounts will detail a radical new approach to funding education and training for working age people to meet individuals’ needs to retrain and upskill as our working lives become longer.
Currently 80 per cent of those who are not disabled are in work, as opposed to only 47 per cent for people with disabilities.
The Government had committed to halving this unacceptable disability employment gap, but analysis by Learning and Work Institute suggests this would take 200 years to achieve on current trends unless radical action is taken.