Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 26
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By the Department’s own admission, it is not possible to know whether Disability Confident is...
Conclusion
By the Department’s own admission, it is not possible to know whether Disability Confident is having any meaningful beneficial impact on the employment prospects of disabled people. As part of its evaluation, the Department should explore ways in which it can measure the success of the Disability Confident scheme. This should include, but not be limited to, a mandatory requirement for employers at levels 2 and 3 to routinely publish the percentage of disabled individuals working in their organisations through the Government’s Voluntary Reporting Framework. Employers should also be required to notify the Government when they have signed up to the framework.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
Analysis has already been undertaken, by the ONS, to estimate the association between self-reported disability and deaths involving COVID-19. The following article concluded that a combination of factors (residence type, geography, socio-demographics, and health conditions) partly explained the increased risk for disabled people. Deaths involving COVID-19 by disability status: a retrospective analysis of 29 million adults during the first two waves of the Coronavirus pandemic in England | medRxiv More generally the ONS concluded that people in certain occupations had an increased risk of death involving COVID-19. • men who worked in elementary occupations or caring, leisure and other service occupations had the highest rates of death involving COVID-19, with 66.3 and 64.1 deaths per 100,000 males, respectively. • women who worked in as process, plant, and machine operatives or in caring, leisure and other service occupations had the highest rates of death involving COVID-19 when looking at broad occupational groups, with 33.7 and 27.3 deaths per 100,000 females, respectively. Coronavirus (COVID-19) related deaths by occupation, England and Wales - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) Disability employment gap: Government response 23 Kickstart & Restart – data collation