Second Report - Disability employment gap
Select Committee
Work and Pensions Committee
HC 189
30 July 2021
Government response
Disability employment gap: Government Response to the Committee’s Second Report of Session 2021– 22 · published 22 Nov 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
1 results
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Recommendation
Accepted in Part
Para 154
DWP must ensure that the Kickstart and Restart schemes are accessible to disabled people.
Recommendation
DWP must ensure that the Kickstart and Restart schemes are accessible to disabled people. Before September 2017, the Work Programme reported quarterly on job outcomes for disabled people: the Department should be able to do as good a job with …
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Government Response Summary
The government states that the Kickstart and Restart schemes are accessible to disabled people, with support from Work Coaches and Disability Employment Advisers, and that Restart providers must be Disability Confident Leaders. It commits to monitoring the characteristics of participants in employment programmes.
Department for Work and Pensions
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