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– Sayce Report: Getting in, staying in and getting on

Sayce report: Getting in, Staying in and Getting on

Maria Miller MP, Minister for Disabled People launched the Department for Work and Pensions Review of existing provisions to help disabled people back into work. 

Liz Sayce, Chief Executive of RADAR chaired the review said:

“I am recommending empowering disabled people and employers by opening up Access to Work, widening access to information and peer support and ensuring support can go with the individual, from job to job, equipping disabled people for the economy of today and tomorrow.  Young people do not expect a job for life – so we need to design support that can go with the individual, from job to job.”

 

The Sayce report has a strong focus on equality and the economy as support for disabled people via Access to Work initiatives would not only bridge the gap between those with disabilities’ and non-disabled people’s career choices but would also improve the national economy by £13 billion.

 

Each pound spent on Access to Work recoups £1.48 to the public coffers.

 

Maria Miller MP explained;

“This review is about spending money differently, not cutting it.  The amount of money going into employment services for disabled people is already being protected. 

 

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A cross-government ministerial group will be introduced to steer the report’s findings and drive policy on employment for disabled people.

 

The core principles of the Sayce’s report are:

  •  Employment matters. Work is positive for health, for income, for social status and for relationships. Employment is a core plank of independent living and for many people work is a key part of their identity.
  • Public money should be used to deliver the best outcomes – for as many people as possible, on the most equitable basis possible.
  • There should be a clear recognition of the role of the individual, the employer and the State in achieving equality for disabled people.
  •  Disabled people should have choice and control over the support we need to work. Resources and power should be allocated to individuals who, where they wish, have the right to control that resource to achieve agreed outcomes.
  • There is a clear role for specialist disability employment expertise – as a resource not a world apart from mainstream support – available to those who demonstrably have the greatest support needs and/or labour market disadvantage, and also to those who support or employ them.

 

The consultation period ran from 2nd December to 28th February 2011.  Among the report’s contributors was leading learning disability charity, Mencap, whose Chief Executive Mike Goldring CBE welcomed the review:

“We can do much more to help people with disabilities into work in a way that directly benefits them and the wider society. Less than 10% of people with a learning disability are currently employed but we know that most want to. With modest help it is possible for many more people to work in open employment alongside their non disabled colleagues. This is the way that policy and practice should take us.”

 

Read the Report here:

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Kuki Taylor

Research and Communications Officer

3 Comments

  1. Arthur
    First let me say I served my time in mainstream employment and I was made ill by bullying.Not because I was bad at my job but indeed the oposite.
    Narsistic people who con their way up in society (Read study done in holland)have a lot to answer for,governments beware.
    I have worked at Remploy for a few years now and have an understanding of the company that I did not have in the first years I worked here.
    Remploy is NOT a work house.Remploy is one of the best enviroments I have worked in and that includes a number of mainstream factories.
    Charities and specialists disability employment people must therfore be bias and ill informed in their opinions.
    Liz Sayce uses these people to promote her own form of discrimination against
    disabled people who work in the factories.
    Loading factory workers with costs that have nothing to do with them and saying that this has been Audited, yet making claims for disabled people being located into work without making reference to that being Audited seems to me
    to be hypocritical commercial dogma.

  2. YES, WHAT A CON, CLOS DOWN REMPLOY FACTORIES AND OTHER WORK SHOPS, MOST DISABLED WORKERS WILL NOT SURVIVE IN SO CALLED MAINSTREAM EMPLOYMENT. I AM BLIND 90% OF EMPLOYERS POLLED BY THE RNIB SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO EMPLOY BLIND OR PARTIALLY SIGHTED PEOPLE. RADAR AND OTHER DISABILITY CHARITY WICH SUPPORTS THIS FARCE SHOULD BE ASHAMED.

    REMPLOY AND OTHER WORKSHOPS COULD SURVIVE IF THIS CON-DEM GOVERNMENT USED ARTICLE 19, BY RESERVING PUBLIC CONTRACTS FOR REMPLOY AND OTHER FACTORIES THAT EMPLOY DISABLED PEOPLE.

    LIZ SAYCE SHOULD BE ASHAMED ALL THIS REPORT IS DOING IS HELPING THE LIB-DEMS MAKE CUTS.

  3. What about all those people with disabilities and illnesses who will never get better, what about all those people who cannot work because of their disabilities?

    This is just a con to force disabled people who cannot work into jobs that are not fit for purpose, are we going to be seeing match sellers on the street next????

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