News and events - Disability at Work

Creating an inclusive employment future for disabled people

Jul 21, 2020 | Events

A wide-ranging discussion at the RSA online workshop on 16 June chaired by Liz Sayce was attended by disabilty@work with Melanie Jones presenting research on the impact of recession on work outcomes for disabled people. The debate covered action for employers: fair...

APPG for Disability newsletter disseminates disability@work COVID-19 research to all Parliamentarians

Jul 21, 2020 | APPG

The APPG for Disability has distributed a newsletter to all Parliamentarians and its observer community outlining its activities in the three months to June. One of the topics it covered was the disability@work brief on the policy reforms that are needed to protect...

APPG for Disability backs disability@work proposals for a disability inclusive response to the COVID-19 recession

Jul 21, 2020 | APPG

Our proposals for a disability inclusive response to the COVID-19 recession have received backing from the APPG for Disability. The APPG has forwarded the brief to the Minister for Disabled People, and Kim Hoque and Lisa Cameron MP (Chair APPG for Disability) will be...

My PhD Thesis by John Poole, Cardiff Business School – Disability onset: what are the effects on individual wellbeing over time?

Apr 18, 2020 | PhD Research

Whilst wellbeing overall has grown in the last few years, a concern is that a ‘disability wellbeing gap’ persists. Such gaps are inconsistent with the psychological literature which predicts adaptation to pre-determined overall life satisfaction following positive and...

Kim Hoque addresses Westminster Business Forum

Apr 18, 2020 | In-work disability gaps, Measurement and targets, Westminster forum

In an address at Westminster Business Forum’s ‘Disability in the Workplace’ event in January 2020, at which the Minister for Disabled People was in attendance, Kim Hoque provided a critique of the government’s Disability Confident campaign, highlighting that very few...

APPG for Disability holds landmark meeting on disability employment and pay gap reporting

Apr 18, 2020 | APPG, Measurement and targets

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability has held a landmark meeting in its bid to press the UK Government to introduce mandatory reporting for disabled workers by adopting the measures in Lord Shinkwin’s Workforce Information Bill. This calls for mandatory...

Poor performance on Disability Confident

Dec 12, 2019 | In-work disability gaps, Measurement and targets, Organisational barriers and supports

Research on Disability Confident undertaken by disability@work is picked up by disability organisations and is reported by Disability News Service. Less than 80 private sector firms (0.5% of private sector firms excluding sole traders) achieved the top level...

Lord Shinkwin seeks advice from disability@work on mandatory reporting on disability for organisations

Nov 22, 2019 | Measurement and targets

A well-received Demos discussion paper by Lord Shinkwin and George Relph (2019) highlights the ongoing relative disadvantage experienced by disabled people 25 years after the DDA, both in comparison to non-disabled people and to progress and policy in relation to...

Evidence to the Lord Holmes Review Opening up Public Appointments to Disabled People

Nov 22, 2019 | Measurement and targets

There are 6,000 public appointments each year in the fields of education, health, prisons and cultural institutions. With incomplete data collection (disability status of 35 per cent of existing appointments in unknown) and an absence of consistent monitoring, the...

Response to consultation on Social Value in Public Sector Procurement

Nov 22, 2019 | Measurement and targets

This consultation proposes the inclusion of additional social value metrics to the tendering process on public projects. The disability@work submission (2019) authored by Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass welcomes the inclusion of a disability employment metric and make...

Our response to Health is Everyone’s Business, a consultation on ill-health related job loss by the Work and Health Unit (WHU)

Nov 22, 2019 | Measurement and targets

The disability@work submission (2019) to this second WHU consultation authored by Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass builds on the theme of data quality in relation to disability at the organisational level from their first submission. Organisational monitoring of...

Our contribution to the Wales: A Fair Work Nation

Nov 22, 2019 | Measurement and targets, Organisational barriers and supports

With two submissions to this public consultation (2018), disability@work was pleased to see a focus on organisational reporting in the final report (Fair Work Wales 2019). In the first submission Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass propose the disability employment gap as...