Abstract
New Deal for Disabled People (NDDP) is a voluntary programme designed to help people with disabilities and health conditions secure (sustainable) employment. It was delivered through a national network of public, private and voluntary sector organizations (known as Job Brokers). This paper discusses the impact of NDDP and how its relative success was enabled by the wider institutional environment. NDDP was cost-beneficial in both reducing incapacity-related benefit receipt and increasing the employment rate of programme participants. The institutional factors covered are: programme take-up, contract management and funding regime, and Job Brokers relationships with the public employment service, Jobcentre Plus.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2011.558235 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 165 - 176
Submitted on: Apr 7, 2010
Accepted on: Nov 24, 2010
Published on: May 2, 2012
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2012 Bruce Stafford, published by Stockholm University Press
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