, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Okay. I understand geographically specific targeting, but to disqualify anybody over a certain age when—I think it's some extraordinarily large sum—83 per cent of disabilities are acquired whilst people are in employment.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Sorry, what sort of people would fall through the gap?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Excellent. We'll be in touch. Andrea.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
And will that tell us the outcomes in terms of people not just getting into work, but also staying in work and progressing?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Okay, so, certainly joining up the dots there. But is there data you can send us about how many people you serve—
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Thanks very much. Just finally from me, I wondered if you could tell us what measures are in place to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the services you provide and whether there are any data gaps that would help you target your services even more…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Thank you. Just moving on—apologies. Joel James.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Thank you very much. Julie Morgan.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Thank you. Can I bring in Sioned Williams now?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Thank you. I'm now going to pass on to Jane Dodds, to find out a bit more.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
It would certainly be a major challenge as we don't have more than one local authority who's a Disability Confident leader, which is the only meaningful kitemark that is relevant, because all the rest is ticking a box and nobody actually checking up on your…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Okay. Thank you. Arthur Beechey.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
So, the main reason that programme folded—was that because of the loss of the European money and it going back to the UK Government?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 10
Welcome back to the Equality and Social Justice Committee's inquiry into disability and employment. I'd like to welcome Andrea Wayman, chief executive officer of ELITE Supported Employment, and Arthur Beechey, chief executive officer of Agoriad Training and…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
I think that's all from me, but if there's anything else, perhaps we can correspond with you. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much for your appearance. We'll send you a transcript and you can obviously come back to us if there's a problem. We'll…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
That would be very useful to know. We'll obviously ask the Cabinet Secretary when we meet her later on. Otherwise, you said yourselves as an organisation set your own KPIs and targets. Are you able to share those with us so that we can see—? In relation…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Meanwhile, Careers Wales, I was particularly keen to find out a little bit more about the inclusive apprenticeship disability action plan, which is now nearly 10 years old. No, sorry, I beg your pardon, it's not 10 years old. It's nearly six years old…
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Thank you. You mentioned, Mr Mills, that you have five key objectives in your team. Is that something that you'd be able to share with us? You don't need to say it right now, but if you could send it to us, that would be great.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Very good. Why do you think all the others have just not engaged with this?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Thank you. We were told earlier by one of our witnesses earlier this afternoon that there's only one Disability Confident leader amongst all the 22 local authorities in Wales. Which one is that?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Okay. There are various questions that we may need to follow up outside the meeting.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Thank you.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Sorry. The DPECs?
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
Okay, thank you. Sioned Williams.
, Equality and Social Justice Committee
Disability and employment: evidence session 9
It doesn't always lead on to placements, though, does it?
