On Friday August 12, Disability Rights UK acting in partnership with students from Kings College London and in its role as secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability held the evidence in public session of the APPG Inquiry into the Government’s manifesto commitment to halve the disability employment gap.
Philip Connolly: the Policy and Development Manager of Disability Rights UK said, “The Government has many other policy levers that it could exercise in support of disabled people’s ambitions to work. These levers include public procurement to underpin job creation, research and development grants to create new markets and business start-up loans accessed by disabled entrpreneurs. All these levers and others should be wielded in partnership with disabled people themselves.We need a broader focus to mitigate the failure or under achievement of current and even future welfare to work programmes.”
The photographs show witnesses presenting evidence before the panel’s chairs Baroness Uddin and Baroness Hollins.
