Kim Hoque gives oral evidence to the Work and Pensions Select Committee for its Plan for Employment and Jobs inquiry
Kim raised the Disability Employment Charter, of which Disability@Work are founder members, with the committee, as well as discussing the effectiveness of government support for disabled entrepreneurs, supply-side measures including Individual Placement and Support...
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Kim Hoque addresses Irish National Disability Authority on the Disability Employment Charter
Speaking in a session chaired by Siobhán McKenna, Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at the Public Appointments Service , Kim outlined how the Charter came into existence, the growth in signatories since its launch in October 2021, and the ways the Charter’s...
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Disability@Work at Trinity College, Oxford
Vicki Wass and Kim Hoque were invited to join a panel discussion on the Disability Employment Charter at the Herbert Smith Freehills Disability Mooting Championship at Trinity College, Oxford.
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Disability@Work research on BBC Radio 4
Disability@Work’s Kim Hoque has appeared on a BBC Radio 4 documentary, presented by Claire Randall, on the challenges visually impaired people face in the labour market.
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Mass Parliamentary support for Disability Employment Charter
A large number of MPs have attended an event organised by UNISON in Parliament to demonstrate their support for the Disability Employment Charter, which outlines nine sets of key policy proposals the government needs to implement to address disability employment...
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New research by disability@work traces UK disability-related labour market inequality during the pandemic
As part of an ESRC funded research project within the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISERD), Professor Melanie Jones documents higher COVID19-related work-related health and economic risks for disabled workers before the pandemic. However,...
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Disability@Work co-found new Disability Employment Charter
Disability@Work has joined forces with other leading disability organisations to launch a new Disability Employment Charter . The Charter makes nine key demands of the government to ‘level up’ on the employment disadvantage faced by disabled people, with several of...
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Response to Work and Pensions Select Committee Inquiry Report on the Disability Employment Gap published July 30th
Using research from disability@work, the Disability News Service conclude that “MPs and academics have dismissed claims by ministers in their new National Disability Strategy that the government has slashed the disability employment gap over the last seven years.”...
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National Disability Strategy CP512 Published July 28th 2021
The long-awaited National Disability Strategy (NDS) was finally published in July 2021. disability@work provide a reflection and a formal response to this set of proposals which will guide future disability policy, particularly in relation to employment.
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Further interruption to national statistics on disability
ONS has suspended estimates of the number of disabled people of working age from March 2020. Without these figures, we cannot track progress on the Government’s target on the number of disabled people into jobs. This is the second suspension of the series since the...
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Disability@Work’s proposals for national strategy presented at APPG for Disability meeting
At an All Party Parliamentary Group for Disability meeting in April 2021 chaired by Lord Shinkwin, Kim Hoque presented Disability@Work’s main policy proposals for the National Strategy for Disabled People regarding disability employment and pay gap reporting,...
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PM promises ambitious and transformative National Strategy for Disabled People
The APPG Disability drew on research from Disability@Work in an open letter to the Prime Minister in April 2020 seeking reassurance on protections for disabled people both during the Covid health crisis and in its economic aftermath. The Prime Minister’s letter in...
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