Access to Work, Mike Adams, Liz Sayce
Commitee announces first evidence session into Access to Work
2 July 2014
The Work and Pensions Select Committee has today announced the first of four oral evidence sessions for its inquiry into Employment support for disabled people: Access to Work.
- Parliament TV: watch the session on Access to Work
- Transcript: read the transcript of the session on Access to Work
- Inquiry: Access to Work
- Work and Pensions Committee
Witnesses
9:30am, Wednesday 2 July 2014, Grimond Room, Portcullis House
- Mike Adams OBE, Chief Executive Officer, ECDP (Essex Coalition of Disabled People) and former Chair of the Government’s Access to Work expert advisory panel
- Liz Sayce OBE, Chief Executive Officer, Disability Rights UK, and author of the 2011 independent review of specialist disability employment support
Purpose of the meeting
- Progress in raising the employment rate of disabled people
- The key recommendations of the Sayce Review and the Access to Work expert advisory panel, and
- Steps taken so far towards implementation
The Committee plans to hold three further evidence sessions for this inquiry; these are provisionally scheduled as follows:
- Wednesday 3 September at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC
- Wednesday 15 October at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC
- Wednesday 29 October at 9.30am, venue at the House of Commons TBC
Further information
The terms of reference have also been issued in EasyRead format and British Sign Language with extended deadlines.