Table 1 Typology of interventions to help long-term sick and disabled people into work
Focus | Intervention type and programme logic | Examples of interventions |
|---|---|---|
work environment | Tackling discrimination Legislate to outlaw discrimination by employers against disabled/long-term sick in recruitment and retention of staff | Disability Discrimination Act 1995 |
| Â | Improving workplace and employment accessibility Legal or financial measures to remove or reduce barriers to accessibility of work and employment for the disabled/long-term sick | Access to Work scheme |
| Â | Offering financial incentives to employers Job creation or financial incentives to employers to employ disabled and long-term sick to increase employment opportunities. | Job Introduction Scheme; Work Trial |
| Â | Enhancing return to work planning Improve provision for planned return to work and for agencies to cooperate and integrate services offered | Forthcoming Fit for Work service |
individual | Offering financial incentives/disincentives for welfare claimants Financial incentives/reduced benefit generosity to increase incentives to gain employment | Tax credits; Return to Work Credit, Job Preparation Premium |
| Â | Individualised case management and job search assistance Individualised vocational advice/job search assistance on a case management basis | ONE Advisory Service; New Deal for Disabled People; Pathways to Work |
| Â | Education, training and work trial Improve claimants' skills, education and training to increase 'employability' | Residential Training; Work Preparation; Work Trial |
| Â | Health condition/impairment management Medical rehabilitation and/or advice on health condition management to improve fitness to work. | Condition Management Programme |