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To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, what use he is making of research his Department has recently (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the demand for places for supported employment. - Including text of letter from Richard Foster of Employment Service, figures and ref to Supply...

Asked by

Lord Boswell of Aynho (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

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Written questions

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Answered

Tabled on

20 October 1999

For answer on

26 October 1999

Answered on

26 October 1999

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what use he is making of research his Department has recently (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the demand for places for supported employment. [95727] Ms Jowell: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its Chief Executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given. Letter from Richard Foster to Mr. Tim Boswell, dated 25 October 1999: As the Employment Service is an Executive Agency, the Secretary of State has asked Leigh Lewis to reply direct to your question about research into the demand for place for our Supported Employment Programme. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to Mr. Lewis as Chief Executive of the Agency. I am replying in his absence. The research was conducted by Sheila Honey and Matthew Williams at the Institute for Employment Studies and published in July 1998 under the title: Supply and Demand for Supported Employment. A copy is available in the House of Commons Library. The Programme provides job support to over 22,000 disabled people with a range of employers and in supported factories and businesses. It is open to disabled people who face more complex barriers to getting or keeping a job because of their disability, but who can work effectively with support. The Programme is delivered in partnership with over 230 local authority and voluntary organisations and Remploy Ltd. Around 12,000 supported employees work in a variety of jobs with mainstream employers with the remainder working in around 190 supported factories and businesses, including some 6,3000 in Remploy factories. The research provided estimates, using a variety of data sources, of the extent to which the supply of places on our Programme matched the potential demand on a geographical basis. Depending on the definition, the research indicated a potential additional demand of between 40,000 and 180,000 places. The lower figures was based on people who were unemployed and actively seeking work and the upper figure included those who were currently inactive in the labour market (such as students, those looking after families or homes, or people temporarily unable to work due to illness). It is unlikely, however, that all of those estimated as eligible for our Supported Employment Programme will actually demand a place--many are likely to find work in open employment or training. The research also indicated that the degree to which the potential supply of places on the Programme matched the potential demand varied by Employment Service Region. Wales had the closest match between supply and demand, followed by the South West and the Northern Region. The greatest mismatch between supply and demand occurred in London, followed by the West Midlands and the North West. East year some 3,000 people enter the Programme; and we are using the findings of the research to inform contract discussions with a view to addressing geographical imbalances over time. One key factor we take into account in these discussions is that any rapid redistribution of existing places could force people off the Programme (and potentially out of work). Many contractors also have a specific geographical rather than a national remit, for example local authorities, and cannot support people elsewhere. Government funding for our Supported Employment Programme for 1999-2000 is £155.1 million. A further £5 million for this financial year and the two following financial years to March 2002 has been allocated as part of a new £30 million fund for disability services, announced in 1998 by the Secretary of State for Education and Employment. We are using this additional resource to increase the grant per place to local authority and voluntary body contractors, to support developments at Remploy, and to support proposals for a series of projects to develop and test ways of improving the effectiveness of the Programme and, in particular, its success in helping people to progress into open employment. Helping those disabled people who can cope with unsupported open employment to make the transition will release places for new people to enter the Programme. I hope this is helpful.

Date

26 October 1999

Reference

95727; 336 c807-8W

House

House of Commons

Deposited Paper Dep 99/1578

Deposited by

Employment Service

Type

Deposited papers

Date

1 September 1999

Reference

Dep 99/1578

House

House of Commons

Dept for Education and Employment;Employment Service

If she will list the number of blind and disabled people and the number of able bodied people employed in each sheltered workshop in Scotland indicating the cost of each category in each workshop. - Text of letter from Mike Fogden of Employment Service Agency. Inc table.

Asked by

David Marshall (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Education and Employment

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

For answer on

14 October 1996

Answered on

14 October 1996

Mr. David Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the number of blind and disabled people and the number of able-bodied people employed in each sheltered workshop in Scotland indicating the cost of each category in each workshop; and if she will make a statement. [40034] Mr. Forth: Responsibility for the subject of the question has been delegated to the Employment Service agency under its chief executive. I have asked him to arrange for a reply to be given. Letter from Mike Fogden to Mr. David Marshall, dated 14 October 1996: The Secretary of State has asked me to reply to your question about the number of people employed in Supported Workshops in Scotland. This is something which falls within the responsibilities delegated to me as Chief Executive of the Agency. Information on the number of people in Scottish workshops supported by the Employment Service (ES) under its Supported Employment Programme is provided at Annex 1. The Programme is provided under contracts between the workshop owners (who are local authorities or voluntary bodies) and the ES and covers placements with employers as well as workshop places. Information on the costs of workshop employees in the requested categories (blind people, other disabilities and non-disabled people) is not available. It is not required for management purposes by the ES; no figures are therefore obtained or kept. Information on the per capita costs of disabled employees supported by the ES is gathered by the ES from voluntary body and local authority contractors as it is a requirement for funding. Contractors provide this information to the ES on a confidential basis as it is commercially sensitive and so individual workshop figures are not publicly available from the ES. However the average cost per disabled employee in Scottish workshops, in 1994/95, the latest year for which figures are available, was £10,695. In that year costs ranged from a loss of £18,783 per worker in one workshop to a loss of £4,421 per worker in another. I hope this is helpful. ANNEX 1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Name of workshop Location Number disabled Number blind Number non disabled Number other workers supported workers{2} workers not disabled workers by ES{1} including supported by ES{1} supported by ES{1} not supported by blind ES{1} Beltane Wishaw 19 1 4 0 Blindcraft Edinburgh 73 45 41 0 Dovetail Enterprises Dundee 70 28 48 0 Matrix, Fife Dalgety Bay 47 8 6 0 Blindcraft Glasgow 118 82 72 7 The Sign Factory Falkirk 38 6 5 0 Camphill Newton Dec 82 0 30 0 Erskine Hospital Workshops Bishopton 32 1 27 3 Hansel Village Symington 30 0 11 0 Haven Products{3} Glasgow 90 3 81 6 Lady Haig Edinburgh 27 3 10 0 Lord Roberts Edinburgh 8 0 5 0 New Trinity Industries Edinburgh 53 1 20 0 Blindcraft Inverness 21 2 7 0 Glencraft Group (Blindcraft Aberdeen 71 25 36 0 Aberdeen) Scottish Braille Press Edinburgh 26 7 7 1 Totals 805 212 410 17 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Employment Service. {2} Includes partially sighted workers. {3} Haven Products operates from four separate sites but has been counted as one workshop unit in the table above.

Date

14 October 1996

Reference

40034; 282 c726W;282 c724W

House

House of Commons

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