ONS: Employment of Disabled People 2021
The ONS this morning published a report about the number of working age disabled people in employment. Overall, the numbers were upbeat, e.g.
- there were 4.4m disabled people in employment in the UK in Q2 2021. This is estimated an increase of 300,000 on the year, an increase of 390,000 since Q2 2019 and an overall increase of 1.5m since Q2 2013
- the disability employment gap was 28.4 percentage points in Q2 2021. This is a decrease of 0.7 percentage points on the year, a decrease of 0.6 percentage points Q2 2019 and an overall decrease of 4.8 percentage points since Q2 2013
We sought the reaction of HRs, recruiters and disabled people themselves…