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Економіка інклюзії / Національний / 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
ONS data shows 4.4 million disabled people in employment in the UK — a record high — but the disability employment gap remains at 28.4 percentage points, essentially unchanged since 2017 despite a decade of policy attention.
Scope analysis of UK labour market data finds the employment rate gap between disabled and non-disabled people costs the UK economy an estimated £27bn annually in lost productivity and increased welfare expenditure.
DWP Green Paper proposing the most significant overhaul of UK disability benefits since 2012, including tightened Work Capability Assessment criteria and increased employment support conditionality. Projected £3bn savings by 2030.
Ed Miliband privately raised concerns within the Labour Cabinet about the scale and pace of disability benefit cuts — positioning him as a senior counterweight to the fiscal consolidation drive within the UK government.
Liz Kendall's landmark White Paper frames disability employment as a workforce supply crisis, launching specialist employment support and job coaches on mental health wards. Projects £1.3bn investment in back-to-work support.
IFS research using Understanding Society data finds that the majority of disabled people who move off disability benefits do not enter sustained employment — challenging the fiscal assumption underpinning UK welfare reform.
Frances Ryan documents how a decade of welfare reform has pushed 1.3 million disabled people deeper into poverty, with the disability poverty rate rising to 31% — twice the rate for non-disabled people — and the social care crisis eliminating employment capacity.
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