, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Professor Wass.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. Could I just bring in Joel James, and then I'll come back to you, Jane?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Fine. Professor Jones, you wanted to come in.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Dr Bryan.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
I beg your pardon. Anything further to add? If not, Jane, move on.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Professor Wass.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Okay. Who would like to start off? Obviously, it's quite a wide question. Who'd like to kick off? Melanie, go ahead.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 2
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee. We're continuing our inquiry into disability and employment, and I'm very pleased to welcome Professor Melanie Jones and Professor Victoria Wass, from Cardiff University—and thank you very much indeed…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Very good. Thank you so much for your time. We’re now going to take a short break. Our next session will start at roughly a quarter to, so in about six minutes, with our academic colleagues.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
We'd only want brief answers, and we hopefully wouldn’t take too much of your time. So, thank you very much. We’ll be sending you a transcript, if there’s anything you don’t think is accurate please do correct it.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you. We have run out of time. Thank you very much indeed for your important evidence and for setting the scene for our evidence sessions. If we’ve got any further questions, perhaps we can just write to you.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you. Joel James.
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Yes. We obviously need to measure outcomes and that's one of the ways in which we can do it. Mick, back to you.
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Us. [Laughter.]
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Very good. Mick Antoniw, please.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
We're hearing what you're saying, but we have a number of specific questions we need to cover.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Sioned Williams.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you. Jane Dodds.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you for that. Julie, back to you.
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I do.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Can I just come in and ask about the role of trade unions, because it's very difficult for the individual to start negotiating as an individual on their own? What role do they play in terms of supporting people who need adjustments to enable them to be…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
I beg your pardon. I'm so sorry.
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Thank you for that summary. Can I now call Sioned Williams?
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
Right. Looking at it from the point of view of somebody who's disabled, and the poor level of engagement of employers, particularly in viewing this as a social issue, rather than just simply, 'Are we going to make adjustments to enable somebody to join the…
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Disability and employment: evidence session 1
I think that will emerge. I suppose you included specific actions in the recommendations of the disability rights taskforce, which is, obviously, involving what would appear to be a large number of stakeholders in different working groups. So, what progress…
