As government and organisations grapple with disability reporting and tracking trends in disability prevalence and gaps in disability-related outcomes, we publish our response to the Government’s Green Paper Consultation Improving Lives: Work Health and Disability...

Kim Hoque (Disability@Work) and Philip Connolly and Kamran Mallick (Disability Rights UK) met with the Prime Minister’s special adviser on disability, Jean Andre Prager, to discuss the key recommendations of the APPG for Disability Ahead of the Arc report on closing...

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability has published two blogs detailing the work it has undertaken in recent months. Central to these blogs is the work Disability@Work has undertaken in collaboration with Phillip Connolly at Disability Rights UK to...

John Poole will join Cardiff Business School as a PhD student from October 2018 to work with Professors Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass using longitudinal data to explore how the impact of disability develops during the life course, the extent to which it persists and...

Source: Jones (2016) Disability and labor market outcomes, IZA World of Labor: 253 doi: 10.15185/izawol.253 Professor Melanie Jones reports five consistent findings across the countries of the EU on the enduring nature of labour market disadvantage for disabled...

Using a measure of individual wellbeing such as life satisfaction offers a useful approach to capturing the overall impact of a diverse range of impacts of the experience of disability. Using Australian data the research finds a dramatic decline in wellbeing at the...

On 17th January the APPG for Disability held its first meeting of year. The meeting opened with a briefing from Tabitha Jay, Director of the Joint Health and Work Unit, on the Improving Lives “Command Paper”. Kim Hoque then provided an update on the ‘Ahead of the Arc’...

The Disability Rights UK and Disability@Work “Growth sectors” round table event on 14th December 2017 sought to promote the recommendations in the ‘Growth Areas of the Economy’ chapter of the Ahead of the Arc report to policy-and practice-makers in the public and...

Disability Rights UK and Disability@Work “Business Networks” round table event on 7th December 2017 sought to promote the recommendations in the ‘Business Networks’ and ‘Self-Employment’ chapters of the Ahead of the Arc report. The discussion focused on the gaps in...

In late November the government published its much-anticipated Industrial Strategy white paper. The document, which lays down the government’s long-term strategy to boost Britain’s productivity, earnings and economic performance, makes several notable references to...