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Sep 17, 2026 _The Department for Work and Pensions has published a Rapid Evidence Assessment on how employers can be supported to recruit disabled people and people with health conditions, according...
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Disability:IN's 2026 Disability Equality Index, published 27 July 2026, benchmarked 627 submissions from 421 organisations across 45 countries — nearly six times last year's global reach — revealing strong progress on some fronts but persistent governance gaps. On accessibility and benefits, coverage is near-universal: 99% of assessed firms provide mental health and wellbeing benefits beyond legal minimums, 98% offer flexible or remote work accommodations, and 97% provide long-term disability income protection. Yet leadership visibility remains strikingly low: only 6% of participating organisations have board members who openly identify as having a disability, and just 25% include disability in governance or board demographic reports. Only 28% mention disability in corporate governance charters. CEO Jill Houghton described the results as evidence that disability inclusion is entering a new era — shifting from tick-box programmes toward embedding inclusion in core governance and systems. For European employers, the index serves both as a benchmark and a checklist: strong policy infrastructure exists in most large organisations, but board-level accountability and transparent reporting remain the frontier. The index methodology uses 76 yes/no questions across nine categories and six proficiency tiers.
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NOS Nieuws vandaag, 09:28 Aangepast vandaag, 11:55 De Europese Unie zal snel onafhankelijk moeten worden en zelf voor de veiligheid moeten zorgen.
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NOS Nieuws vandaag, 18:05 De Raad van State heeft geen grote bezwaren tegen de plannen van het kabinet over Schiphol.
NOS Nieuws vandaag, 11:53 Aangepast vandaag, 12:41 Oud-GroenLinks-politica Tara Singh-Varma is op 78-jarige leeftijd overleden, heeft haar pleegdochter Mala Angna laten weten aan de NOS.
Voor schoonmaakbedrijven die mensen met een arbeidsbeperking in dienst nemen of willen nemen, zijn verschillende financiële regelingen en vormen van ondersteuning beschikbaar.
Employer behaviour is the missing link in disability employment policy. Decades of wage subsidies, legal mandates, and awareness campaigns have produced modest results. Field experiments reveal why: employers avoid disability disclosure not from malice but from rational responses to perceived risk and information gaps. Fixing this requires understanding what employers actually fear.
No other vocational intervention comes close to IPS's evidence base: 25+ randomised controlled trials across 15 countries, consistent effect sizes of 1.5–2.5× traditional rehabilitation, replicated in high-benefit welfare states including Norway, the Netherlands, and Denmark. Yet European implementation remains fragmented and under-scale.
When you look beyond the official unemployment rate, approximately 30 million working-age Europeans are structurally outside the labour market — on disability benefits, long-term sickness, early retirement, or inactive. The fiscal cost exceeds €400 billion annually. This is the defining labour market challenge of the decade.
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