Disabled people's rights

Arthur Beechey

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…have Disability Confident, but, at the end of the day, they're a long way behind in terms of employing disabled people.

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…Disability Confident, and have recently discussed a disability charter with both Disability Wales and Learning Disability Wales to take that through and hopefully strengthen Disability Confident with individual employers that we're working with. The fidelity model, the job coaching model, is really…

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Arthur Beechey

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…aim. So, there are entrenched views there, I think. The other thing, just going back a step, is viewing disabled people in the employment market as more than catering, horticulture and cleaning. With a diagnosis of autism, you can get high-functioning individuals who could be employed at much higher…

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Arthur Beechey

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…third sector, there is a substantial deficiency in terms of the public sector offering employment to disabled people. Apart from Betsi Cadwaladr up here, we've had very little uptake of offers of employment for disabled people. We've run a whole plethora of schemes, ranging from Workstep, the New…

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Andrea Wayman

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…a practitioner across 16 counties in south Wales—I'm speaking primarily about support for people with learning disabilities, learning difficulty and autism—the one-to-one job coach support that provides a holistic service to individuals was so necessary. When that ended in May 2023, we had no means…

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Jenny RathboneLabour

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 10

…both joining us online. If I can start off by asking you both what are the main barriers to work for disabled people and how have these either improved or deteriorated in the last few years. Andrea, would you like to start?

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…with all employers being open, willing to work with us, and to lose all the misconceptions about disabled people and their abilities.

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…different patches of different take-up. In Wrexham, in the last figures I have, 91.3 per cent of non-disabled people were in employment. And if you take out those with caring responsibilities, those who've retired early, if you're looking for employees in the Wrexham area, where are they going to…

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Sioned WilliamsPlaid

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

Thank you. I have one final question. We have heard from Learning Disability Wales, and they called for a national job coaching strategy, which would mean that disabled people could have supported employment. Would you agree with this? Would this be better than what we have at the moment?

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

Yes, definitely. We validated the Welsh Government programme—the disabled people's employment champions. I think it was 86 pages of evidence, so there is a lot of evidence in there on policies, procedures, numbers. And, yes, we'd like to do that. And what we're also currently scoping out is creating…

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Terry Mills

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

…basis, so you see how they're doing. They also have to provide guaranteed interview schemes for disabled people. So, there's a lot more. And also, they don't mark their own homework on that. To become a leader, they need to be validated by another Disability Confident leader. There's also the…

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Nerys Bourne

21 October 2024, Equality and Social Justice Committee

Disability and employment: evidence session 9

Yes. The disabled people's employment group.

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