Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities

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Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with
Disabilities IASE AGM-

• Marion Wilkinson
• Senior Policy and Public Affairs Advisor

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UN Convention on DisabilityArticle 27

• Right to work, on an equal basis with others
• Effective access to vocational guidance,
  placement, and training
• Promote employment through affirmative action and
  other measures
• Provide reasonable accommodation at work
• Promote work experience in open labour market

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Low participation in work

• People with disabilities are only half as likely
  to have a job
• Strong link between education and employment
• Strong link between no job and poverty
• 60 of people with disabilities not working are
  restricted in type or amount of work they can do
• But 15 of those who have difficulty working are
  in a job

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Employment rates 2011aged 20 to 64
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Vision - draft

• People with disabilities can get a job and enjoy
  a rewarding career
• Focus
• Lifecycle focus from birth, through school,
  into adult life.
• People with disability from birth those with
  acquired disabilities

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Values 1-

• People with disabilities are enabled to have
  jobs, earn a living and make a contribution
• People with disabilities are supported to
  maximise their potential
• The focus is on a persons capacity not their
  incapacity
• The strategy covers people across the spectrum of
  disability

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Values 2

• It pays to have a job
• People with disabilities get the supports they
  need to work
• Support systems that cross departmental or agency
  boundaries are mutually coherent and provide a
  joined-up system and joined-up pathways
• Actions in this Strategy are built into the
  mainstream national employment strategy

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Draft strategic priorities

• SP1 Build skills, capacity and independence
• SP2 Provide bridges and supports into work
• SP3 Make work pay
• SP4 Promote job retention and re-entry to work
• SP5 Provide co-ordinated and seamless support
• SP6 Engage employers