For the Ealing Primary Care Trust
This research commissioned in 2008, research was to assess the feasibility of implementing a Job Rotation Pilot in the health services as employers. Although a dynamic economy London has the highest numbers of people who are categorized as work less and on disability benefits relating to economic inactivity than any other region in the UK. Many advocacy organizations relating to disabled people have criticized 'work first' policies of the Government and a lack of commitment (and discrimination) by employers to employ disabled people. A significant proportion of it was considered important therefore to test out a model which embraces pre-employment support, guaranteed work based training and job experience and at the same time address the problem of low skills within the health service.
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