New DWP figures fail again to provide clarity on employment disadvantage faced by disabled people
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UK government disability employment figures show a 30 percentage point gap between disabled (53%) and non-disabled (82.4%) employment rates, with the annual figures revealing the gap actually increased from 26.8% to 28% year-on-year. Disability rights organizations call for a comprehensive national strategy including flexible job creation, adequate funding for support schemes, and employer accountability to close the persistent employment disadvantage faced by disabled people.
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**The government’s annual publication of figures on disability employment has failed yet again to show how disabled people’s experience in the jobs market has changed over the last year.** The “main points” of [yesterday’s (Wednesday) publication](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/the-employment-of-disabled-people-2026) on the employment of working-age disabled people show that no easy conc…
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