Written evidence from Wolf Simpson (DEG0076)

My name is Wolf Simpson. I am responding to your call for evidence through Scope, the disability equality charity.I want to share my experiences of the barriers I've faced in work and what can be improved to help disabled people in the future.

I've answered two questions below as part of your call for evidence.

What extra support would you benefit from in work? Or what would you change about existing support on offer?

Companies have a better understanding of disabilities & better to make adjustments to help those with disabilities to continue to work, not just be fobbed off with excuses coz disability employment laws allow them to do the bare minimum in 'reasonable adjustments' & contribute to the pain, anguish & financial difficulties.

Looking to the future, what does the Government need to improve on to help disabled people get into, stay and progress in work?

The disability at work rules is to biased to the employer to do as lil as possible & barely any way to get the support from employers with no Government body to step in & make independent assessment.

The disability employment gap has been stuck close to 30 percent for over a decade, and the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has seen disabled people falling out of work faster than non-disabled people. 

Scope wants the Government to deliver on its pledge to tackle the disability employment gap. The Government must use the opportunity of the forthcoming National Strategy for Disabled People to set out plans to close the gap.

I hope that the evidence I have provided, alongside research from Scope will prove useful to the committee.

December 2020