Citizens Advice has launched a new programme of research seeking to understand what needs to change to narrow the health and disability employment gap. CA point out that people who are disabled or have a health condition are much less likely to be in work than non-disabled people who don’t have a health condition. Just 49% of those who are disabled or have a health condition are in work. For everyone else this figure is 80% – this is a 31 % gap. The research will be geared towards obtaining an understanding of the varied barriers disabled people and those with health conditions face and then develop ideas for how Government and employers can better support disabled people and those with health conditions to move into work or retain the jobs they already have.

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