Scottish Government consultation- increasing the number of disabled people employed in the public sector

This consultation aims to identify the best way to achieve our ambition of increasing the number of disabled people employed in the public sector. It seeks views on the best way to effect change and how we can know that this change is making a difference to the lives of disabled people in Scotland.

In doing so, it will set out suggestions for change which include potential options for different types of targets. Other proposals are of course, welcomed.

The consultation highlights the fact that a lack of robust data on disability employment levels in individual public bodies creates a challenge for the setting and monitoring of targets, and again we welcome respondents’ views on how this could be addressed.

It further seeks views on actions other than targets that public bodies can take to increase the number and proportion of disabled people in their workforces.

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