The Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation
We have produced the Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation following the commitment given in the Second Stage Report of the Review of Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI).
We have involved other stakeholders including relevant Government departments and the devolved administrations. We distributed over 8,000 copies of our Discussion Paper and the responses have helped us develop the Framework.
There are links to the relevant documents at the end of this introduction.
This Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation is a first step towards building a new approach. It demonstrates the Government's commitment to provide direction and leadership on vocational rehabilitation by:
- producing a working description of vocational rehabilitation which we can all use
- taking appropriate action to ensure that Government initiatives complement each other and contain consistent messages
- setting up a Vocational Rehabilitation Steering Group so stakeholders can contribute to the development of the new approach to vocational rehabilitation
- establishing a Research Working Group and a Standards and Accreditation Working Group to take forward these important issue
- developing new guidance and additional tools for stakeholders
- giving a commitment to consider the range of issues that stakeholders have raised, and
- highlighting that the public sector has a significant contribution to make by setting appropriate examples – particularly Government departments and the devolved administrations.
Stakeholders’ views
We have included detailed information about stakeholders’ views in a separate Framework Annex. The Annex contains:
- Appendix A – An overview of responses to the discussion paper that DWP distributed in May 2004 on developing a Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation.
- Appendix B – A selection of current strategies, initiatives and projects relevant to vocational rehabilitation.
- Appendix C – Vocational Rehabilitation case studies.
| Documents | Format |
|---|---|
| Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation: A plan for getting people back to work if they are ill or have hurt themselves (500KB) | |
| Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation: Building Capacity for Work (275KB) | |
| The Framework Annex (225KB) | |
| Ministerial statement | HTML |
| ELCI Review – First Stage Report (211KB) | |
| ELCI Review – Second Stage Report (132KB) | |
| The Discussion Paper– Developing a Framework for Vocational Rehabilitation (57KB) |
Implementation updates
We will publish documents relevant to the Framework on this site to keep stakeholders up-to-date on the way it is being implemented – for example, research reports and future discussion papers.