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UK Update on Employment of People with Disabilities Roy O’Shaughnessy, CEO Shaw Trust. Welfare to work: recent history. Freud Report, 2007; Framework for outcome-based, contracted support for long-term unemployed.
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UK Update on Employment of People with Disabilities Roy O’Shaughnessy, CEO Shaw Trust
Welfare to work: recent history Freud Report, 2007; Framework for outcome-based, contracted support for long-term unemployed Wisconsin Works, 1996, USA: Radical scheme which required people to participate in work related activity or lose their benefits Work Programme, 2011, UK: Merged back to work support for unemployed people and those with health problems. ST CDG is a prime contractor in London East. ST CDG Volunteers is launched DWP disability contracts: -NDDP- ST had one contract -Progress to Work- for homeless people, ex-offenders and substance misusers. ST had 6 contracts Workstep/Work Prep: ST had15 contracts in total. Flexible New Deal, 2009, UK: ST CDG delivers in South East New Deal, 1998-2009, UK: Contracted out services to help JSA claimants move off benefits and into work. A ST CDG had four prime contracts Work Choice, 2010, UK: Designed by Labour, implemented by the Coalition. WC replaced Workstep/Work Prep and Job Introduction Scheme provision. ST has 16 prime contracts and another prime with CDG-WISE Ability Pathways to Work, 2007, UK: Scheme to help people with health problems to return to work. ST CDG had 5 prime contracts and one subcontract.
Work Programme & Work Choice Work Choice • Work Programme • Mainstream back-to-work programme for long-term unemployed commenced in June 2011 • Specialist disability employment support programme commenced in October 2010 • Designed and launched by Coalition • Designed by Labour, launched by Coalition • Voluntary for any disabled person requiring specialist back-to-work support • Pre-work support (up to 6 months) and in-work support (up to 12+ months) • Mandatory for long-term unemployed (usually 12 months) • Two year programme Shaw Trust has 1 prime and 6 subcontracts Shaw Trust has 16 (+1) prime and 8 subcontracts 18 CPAs 40 Prime contracts 9 Payment groups 100% Payment by results (year 3) 28 CPAs 8 primes 30% Payment by results 18 primes Up to £0.5bntotal 5yr cost 1.31mreferrals 58kstarts (75k referrals) 35ksupported by Shaw Trust 39kwith CDG(London East) Up to £5bntotal 5yr cost 14.7%outcomes (168k sustained jobs) CDG ranks 12thout of 40 30%(unofficial) job start rate 33%outcomes (19k job starts) 34.3% Shaw Trust job starts 43% latest cohort performance
Work Programme and Work Choice: what next? – After 2015 • After 2015 • ‘Payment by results’ models likely to remain • Coalition preference for large, national programmes • Some localised provision being considered e.g. for under 25s & disabled people – ‘City Deals’ • Context: large welfare cuts due 2015/16 • Benefit cap could be lowered • Benefits for young people could be cut • Disability Employment Strategy • Compulsory Jobs Guarantee • A ‘localised’ Work Programme • Personalised budgets for disabled people • Other ideas: • Technical Baccalaureate • Regional benefit cap • Living Wage
Remploy – An update • Set up in 1946, to “transform the lives of disabled people and those experiencing complex barriers to work by providing sustainable employment opportunities”. Notably through network of factories developed in the 1950s and 60s. • Key public policy move in the UK in early 2000s following the Sayce Review, focussing public spend on impact – move from subsidised factories to getting people into mainstream labour market • 33 factories were closed in 2012, with the loss of over 1500 jobs • Some factories transitioned to viable independent businesses. • Remploy still has an employment services arm delivering Work Choice across the UK – but future lies in an independent, competitive market.
