Written evidence from Name Withheld (DEG0082)

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?

1. employers to learn about Reasonable Adjustments and the law it's in ( the Equality Act 2010 ) and what adjustments they have to make and understand so that discrimination doesn't happen in the work place. 2. employers need to learn from disabled employees in work and applying for work. 3. employers need to stop using "employment platforms" ( which don’t understand disability or law or reasonable adjustment etc ) and change to in person interviews and tryout's to see what the disabled person can do.

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

there's a lot I could type here - as there's a lot of improvements needed that the Government need to take, such as understanding the equality act 2010 themselves ! ( there's other acts that departments in government have broken such as the DWP for example )

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