Research (reported in the Disability Employment Coalition’s Access to Work Report, 2004) found out…
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Only 49% of disabled people of working age are in employment.
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Disabled people are, on average, nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as non-disabled people.
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Around half of all unemployed people who said they want to work are disabled.
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Around 1.02 million disabled people who are out of work want employment. |
There are really strong arguments for increasing the employment of disabled people quite apart from issues of fairness and disabled people’s rights under the law. For example, research has shown that…
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Organisations that employ disabled people tend to be better employers for everyone: working conditions are better and everyone who works there tends to be happier, so they work harder and better.
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Disabled people can bring well-developed creative problem-solving skills to their job. This helps everyone in that organisation.
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Many disabled people take less time off sick than non-disabled people.
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Organisations who want to employ disabled people have more people to choose from when they’re looking for new employees so they’ve got a better chance of getting the right person for the job.
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