The UK government has published its promised national disability
strategy setting out various steps it will take to remove barriers
faced by disabled people in their lives. This article looks at the
main work-related measures.
The background
In the latest Family Resources Survey (2019/20),
over 14 million people in the UK (one in five) reported a
disability, which was an increase of 2.7 million since 2009 to
2010. Around 7 million people in the UK are of working age with a
disability or long-term health condition.
The government first announced a national disability strategy at
the 2019 general election to ‘look at ways to improve the
benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in
terms of housing, education, transport and jobs', and this
was supposed to have been published last year. Some of the policy
areas covered in the strategy are devolved within the UK and each
nation has its own approach and policies, but the aim is to reflect
the
