- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
-
Introduction Working futures: disabled people, employment policy and social inclusion -
One The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people -
Two The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people -
Three New Deal for Disabled People: what's new about New Deal? -
Four Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme -
Five Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -
Six Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill -
Seven Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people -
Eight Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints? -
Nine Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD -
Ten Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified? -
Eleven Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia -
Twelve Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities -
Thirteen Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people's movement -
Fourteen Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems -
Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric -
Sixteen Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people -
Seventeen Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options -
Eighteen Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy -
Nineteen Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector's potential for inclusive employment -
Twenty Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat -
Twenty One Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy -
Twenty Two ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare -
Twenty Three Conclusions - Index
Conclusions
Conclusions
- Chapter:
- (p.328) (p.329) Twenty Three Conclusions
- Source:
- Working futures?
- Author(s):
Alan Roulstone
Colin Barnes
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter reflects on some of the key policy insights to flow from this book. It notes that these empirical and theoretical insights have provided a detailed appraisal of a range of key disability and employment policies, and have established the benefits and limitations of current policies. The chapter lays down the key policy points, given the broader objectives of translating new ideas into changing policy and practice. It emphasises that the book makes clear both the continuities and changes which marked the shift from neo-Conservative to New Labour governments. The chapter further notes that the greatest labour-market barriers were those facing disabled people with mental-health problems and those with learning difficulties. It suggests that this evidence further supports the call to widen and incentivise the ‘place and train’ model of employment support. The chapter recommends that good practice from the many voluntary-sector providers of into-work support need to be better understood, and lessons learnt as to what works in disability and employment terms.
Keywords: theoretical insights, key employment policies, neo-Conservative, New Labour, mental-health problems, learning difficulties, employment support, good practice, voluntary-sector providers
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- Title Pages
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
-
Introduction Working futures: disabled people, employment policy and social inclusion -
One The challenges of a work-first agenda for disabled people -
Two The missing million: the challenges of employing more disabled people -
Three New Deal for Disabled People: what's new about New Deal? -
Four Disabled people, employment and the Work Preparation programme -
Five Legislating for equality: evaluating the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -
Six Disability frameworks and monitoring disability in local authorities: a challenge for the proposed Disability Discrimination Bill -
Seven Job retention: a new policy priority for disabled people -
Eight Benefits and tax credits: enabling systems or constraints? -
Nine Challenging the disability benefit trap across the OECD -
Ten Jobcentre Plus: can specialised personal advisers be justified? -
Eleven Disability and employment: global and national policy influences in New Zealand, Canada and Australia -
Twelve Disabled people and ‘employment’ in the majority world: policies and realities -
Thirteen Employment policy and practice: a perspective from the disabled people's movement -
Fourteen Changing minds: opening up employment options for people with mental health problems -
Fifteen Enabling futures for people with learning difficulties? Exploring employment realities behind the policy rhetoric -
Sixteen Barriers to labour market participation: the experience of Deaf and hard of hearing people -
Seventeen Work matters: visual impairment, disabling barriers and employment options -
Eighteen Disabled people and employment: the potential impact of European policy -
Nineteen Missing pieces: the voluntary and community sector's potential for inclusive employment -
Twenty Professional barriers and facilitators: policy issues for an enabling salariat -
Twenty One Disabled people, the state and employment: historical lessons and welfare policy -
Twenty Two ‘Work’ is a four-letter word: disability, work and welfare -
Twenty Three Conclusions - Index
