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The UK work and pensions secretary visited Denmark to learn from its 'Fleksjobs' scheme, which provides subsidised part-time employment with dedicated support for people with reduced work capacity, achieving a disability employment rate increase from 44% to 61% since 2012. The UK government is considering similar approaches as disability-related unemployment among young people has risen significantly, with 45.3% of NEETs now classified as disabled compared to 21% in 2014.
The UK Work and Pensions Secretary discusses how young people with mental health conditions and neurodiversity should be supported into employment rather than remaining on benefits, citing Denmark's Fleksjob scheme as a model that enables disabled workers to remain employed with reduced hours and adjustments. The Government plans to introduce new legislation next year in response to reviews on disability benefits reform and youth employment.
Denmark's flexjob programme — a wage-subsidy arrangement for people with permanently reduced work capacity — has grown to a record size since the 2013 reform. After more than two decades, the evidence on what it adds to employment is more mixed than its scale suggests.
Two new InkludX sections profile companies whose business is getting excluded people into work, and the capital that funds them — setbacks included.
When it comes to welfare policies, many in the UK often look to [Scandinavia](https://inews.co.uk/topic/scandinavia?
A new Nordregio report published in September 2026, 'Disability Indicators for the Nordic Statistics Database', provides the most comprehensive comparable data yet on disability employment across the Nordic countries. Authored by Hjördís Guðmundsdóttir and covered by the Nordic Labour Journal on 8 October, the report reveals that the disability employment gap for people with severe limitations is widest in Denmark (54 percentage points) and narrowest in Iceland. In all Nordic countries, people with disabilities are significantly more likely to be outside the labour market than their peers. The report identifies standardised indicators from Eurostat and national sources to enable systematic tracking over time, using data up to 2025 for Finland, Norway and Sweden. For employers operating across Nordic markets, this benchmarking tool highlights where policy and practice diverge most sharply from inclusion goals.
Born in New York in 1948, the Clubhouse model now spans 370 Clubhouses in 32 countries — with Europe its largest region outside the US. Here's how its route back to paid work operates, and what the evidence really says.
Beyond the official unemployment rate, millions more Europeans are outside the labour market. In 2024, Eurostat counted 13.1 million unemployed people in the EU, plus 6.2 million who were available to work but not looking, and 8.0 million young people aged 15–29 who were not in employment, education or training.
IPS has the strongest evidence base of any employment intervention for people with severe mental illness: 28 randomised controlled trials, with meta-analyses finding that people in IPS are about twice as likely to get a competitive job as those in traditional vocational rehabilitation. Trials in Norway, the Netherlands and Denmark show it also works in generous welfare states. Yet European implementation remains uneven.
Employer behaviour is the missing link in disability employment policy. Field experiments show that employers respond less often to applicants who disclose a disability, even when the disability should not affect the job. Fixing this requires understanding what employers actually fear.
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