This blog is a weekly long-running initiative provided by Ethical Recruitment solutions movement to get all sorts of perspectives into the reasons why there is such a low number of disabled people not in employment. We intend on broadening this bye delving into the education of people with disabilities particularly those 25 and older.
At Ethical recruitment solutions, we aim to find disabled people their dream job if possible. We realise that this statement sounds rather flippant, though if you jump onto our website, you’ll find several testimonials as to how we’ve helped people.
We help people earn money on week 8 of their pathway to employment, bye training them to be commercial salespeople. With our exquisite new handwash collections, we know how daunting yet exciting this will be.
As a mum and who has got a lot of qualifications and experience, it still amazes me that it took 10 years to find a job. I did several voluntary opportunities, and while I acknowledge it was good for the organisations, the community, and it got me out of the house, it didn’t provide me with a financial incentive. One of the voluntary opportunities I went in for, resulted in me having a nasty accident. Though it was due to their lack of understanding, their lack of patients and lack of sympathy.
On researching from one angle, it appears that high-end organisations such as the NHS, which is renounced for its health service provision, one woman had to get the RNIB legal team involved because she went for an interview as an ambulance administrator. She got the job, then she was refused because they said the platform wasn’t accessible for the woman with SSI. Thankfully, the RNIB legal team won the day, and they managed to resolve it with ATW provision and better training.
You may think that advancements in technology mean that blind people fare better than ever, though to some SSI and blind people, this appears on the contrary. Additional jaws scripts can make programs and computer software accessible, though as somebody who is about to re-enter the workforce beautifully states, “While most of the world is speeding in the fast lane of the information superhighway, they are happy to leave us on the hard shoulder.”
We can extend this to societal, organisational and workforce attitudes. Further questions will be explored into the rights and wrongs of government policy such as the disability confidence scheme, and more recently, the national disability employment scheme. Do you think these schemes are fit for purpose? Do they stand up to a hard hit covid society?
The ultimate question is, should the present disability sector of strategies to get disabled people into work need a complete spring clean and start a fresh?
I hope you’ve enjoyed this introductory blog. More will be posted at the end of this week.