Source · Select Committees · Work and Pensions Committee
Recommendation 28
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We heard evidence that the Disability Confident Commitments (the criteria an employer must agree to...
Recommendation
We heard evidence that the Disability Confident Commitments (the criteria an employer must agree to in order to receive Level 1 accreditation) are not challenging 76 Disability employment gap enough for employers and focus too heavily on changing recruitment processes rather than committing employers to recruit and retain disabled employees. We also heard that employers can be awarded Disability Confident accreditation without having to recruit a single disabled person. As part of its evaluation, we recommend that the Department should consider whether the existing Disability Confident commitments, and the criteria at subsequent levels, is sufficiently challenging and encourages meaningful change from employers. We recommend that any new commitments should include a requirement for Disability Confident employers to recruit disabled people before being awarded a higher level of accreditation.
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Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
The Restart Scheme is specifically designed for those who are fit for work and in need of that extra support to get back into sustained employment. The Payment by Results model incentivises providers to help as many people as possible into sustained employment, as the more people they help, the more outcome payments they will receive. There are two distinct elements to the Restart Scheme payment model which are: • Delivery Fee (30% of the estimated Total Contract Value) • Outcome Payments To avoid “creaming and parking” of harder to help participants, we have used an accelerator payment model. This model means that providers begin getting paid more per outcome once they reach above a certain performance level. The intention is to incentivise providers to achieve outcomes for as many customers as possible, including those harder- to-help, rather than focussing only on those considered closest to the labour market. The disability benefits system Work Capability Assessment