Helping people achieve their full potential:
Improving Specialist Disability Employment Services –
Consultation

The public consultation was launched in December 2007 and ended in March 2008. It contained proposals to reform our specialist disability employment services that help disabled people with complex issues to find, retain and progress in work.

We sought views about the reforms from a wide range of individuals, employers and organisations who represent the interests of disabled people.

Electronic versions of the original consultation are available below.

Consultation in full

PDF

• Improving specialist disability employment services (2.0MB)

Large print

• Large print – Improving specialist disability employment services (567KB)

Rich text format

• Rich text format  – Improving specialist disability employment services (255KB) RTF

Easy read

• Easy read – Improving specialist disability employment services (4.0MB)
  • pages 1 to 13 (1.3MB)
  • pages 14 to 26 (706KB)
  • pages 27 to 39 (1.0MB)
  • pages 40 to 52 (844KB)

Easy read – rich text format

• Easy read – rich text format  – Improving specialist disability employment services (89KB) RTF

Welsh

• Welsh – Improving specialist disability employment services (1.2MB)
• Welsh large print – Improving specialist disability employment services (427KB)

Section by section – PDF

• Cover, Ministerial foreword and summary (483KB)
• 1 – Introduction and context for reform (179KB)
• 2 – The case for change (537KB)
• 3 – Integrated, flexible support (314KB)
• 4 – The Disability Employment Adviser role (317KB)
• 5 – Access to Work (259KB)
• Conclusion (43KB)
• Consultation arrangements (57KB)
• Annex A – Consultation questions (55KB)
• Annex B – Department for Work and Pensions Commissioning Strategy (45KB)
• Annex C – Our current disability employment services (54KB)
• Annex D – Research report bibliography (83KB)

Copies of the consultation

Copies of the consultation are still available free of charge from:

Email: sheffieldmoorfoot.desconsultation@dwp.gsi.gov.uk

Phone: 0114 267 7259

TextDirect: 18001 0114 267 7259 (for people with speech or hearing difficulties)

The lines are open Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm.

You can order versions in Welsh, Braille, easy read, English and Welsh large print formats and on audio CD. We will consider any additional requests for other alternative formats that may be required.