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Background
Equal access to employment is a key issue
for many disabled people and a determinant
of their quality of life. Official statistics
reveal the depressing reality that is a moral
and economic scandal. Disabled people
are at least five times more likely to be
unemployed. In the UK, only 49.6% of those
of working age are in work with over three
million in the UK economically inactive.
Of this latter number, one million say they
would like to work.
Numerous existing websites attempt
to address this problem but they are either
disability or location specific or simply serve
as a link to mainstream recruitment sites.
None match employers’ needs with disabled
job seekers’ abilities but focus instead on
disability.
How does it work?
The website www.work-able.org.uk will
be a central resource combining the
best specific advice and information on
employment and training opportunities
for all disabled people from existing UK
independent and government organisations.
This pan-disability site would be a more
accessible and effective way for disabled
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