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Making Workplaces Work for Everyone.

Centre for Ageing Better; 2026.

[Disabled older workers and people with long-term health conditions continue to face significant barriers in the labour market. These challenges are not caused by an individual’s impairment or health condition, but by barriers in the workplace that fail to accommodate different needs. The findings here highlight both areas of consensus and barriers to implementation, and help inform practical action to improve working conditions.]
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It takes leaders to break down siloes: Integrating services for disabled children –

Council for Disabled Children, July 2019

Over the past decade, successive governments have brought in a range of legislation, policies and programmes in an attempt to deliver on a vision of coordinated, person-centred care and better outcomes for children and young people with SEND. However, despite this visible drive towards integration, services for children with SEND remain fragmented. The reality of integrated working between different services and agencies, such as NHS and local authority services, children’s and adults’ services and specialist and universal services, is challenging. The report identifies key factors that are helping and hindering the integration of services around special education needs and disability (SEND). The report finds that:

• The system of disabled children’s services, nationally and locally, is highly complex and fragmented. Those who work in it face multiple practical barriers to integration.
Leadership is the most important factor in enabling or hindering integration; service leaders play a pivotal role in uniting agencies around a whole-system approach to SEND and wider vulnerable children’s services.
Good quality population data is vital to developing a whole-system approach, and the measurement of shared outcomes.
Local Areas’ efforts to integrate services in the complex SEND system must be part of a wider strategic vision

Click here to view the full report.

Hidden no more: dementia and disability

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia, June 2019

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia report that identifies that according to domestic law and international convention, dementia is a disability. Thousands of people who responded to an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) inquiry agreed that they see dementia as a disability. But they told the APPG that society is lagging behind and failing to uphold the legal rights of people with dementia. The evidence reveals that, across the country, people with dementia are not having their disability rights upheld. This report seeks to highlight the human impact that this has on people living with dementia. It focuses on themes of equality, non-discrimination, participation and inclusion.

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