Employment support for disabled people: Access to Work

Inquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee, 7 May 2014 to 12 May 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 2nd Report - Improving Access to Work for disabled people (19 December 2014)
• 2nd Report - Improving Access to Work for disabled people: Report summary in British Sign Language (19 December 2014)
• 2nd Report - Improving Access to Work for disabled people: Report summary in EasyRead (19 December 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 2 July 2014: Mike Adams OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Essex Coalition of Disabled People, and former Chair of the Government’s Access to Work expert advisory panel, and Liz Sayce OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Disability Rights UK, and author of the 2011 independent review of specialist disability employment support
• 3 September 2014: Andy Rickell, Chief Executive Officer, Action on Disability and Work UK, Fazilet Hadi, Group Director, Royal National Institute for the Blind, Marije Davidson, Equality and Diversity Advisor, York St. John University (at 09:30); Nicola Oliver, IPS Project Coordinator, Centre for Mental Health, Ciara Lawrence, Campaigns Assistant, Mencap, Ailis Hardy, Staff Development Coordinator, Mencap, Susan Askew, Workplace Support Consultant, National Autistic Society, Rachel Brown, Administrative Assistant, Notting Hill Housing (at 10:30).
• 15 October 2014: Dr Jules Dickinson, Member of Access to Work working group, Association of Sign Language Interpreters, Susan Scott-Parker OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Business Disability Forum, Julie Fernandez, Freelance actor/broadcaster and small business owner, Gareth Parry, Disability Capability Director, Remploy, and Lee Reed, Equality and Diversity Officer, TLT Solicitors
• 29 October 2014: Mark Harper MP, Minister for Disabled People, Department for Work and Pensions, and Colin Stewart, North West Work Services Director, Jobcentre Plus