Employment and the EASPD Declaration Presentation by James Crowe

1. Employment and the EASPD DeclarationPresentation by James Crowe Labour Market and Social Integration Conference, Bratislava 24.11.2015

2. EASPD • Nonprofit NGO, established 1996 • Voice of 11000+ social service providers in Europe • 130 members from 29 countries • EASPD plays key role at European level, working for an inclusive Europe and full implementation of UN CRPD • Main objective: Effective and high quality service systems, that promote equal opportunities for people with disabilities throughout Europe

3. Key Partners and Stakeholders • European Parliament • European Commission • European Economic and Social Committee • Council of Europe • United Nations

4. Key Partners and Stakeholders • Social Services Europe • Social Platform • Citizen Action Service • Semester Alliance • International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities • Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues • AAATE • GLADNET • Erasmus Student Network • COFACE • European Expert Group on Transition from Institutional to Community Based Care

5. LDW Mission ‘Create a Wales that values and includes every child, young person and adult with a learning disability’

6. LDW Membership • 80 full members: all NGOs • Service providers • Advocacy groups • Parent/carer groups

7. LDW Activities • Information • Training • Policy & Practice influence • Projects • Consultancy • Easy Read translation service

8. Transition to Adult www.realopportunities.org.uk • 9 Municipalities • Age 14-17 • Person centred planning • Extensive progamme of training

9. Declaration • fundamental right to be able to work on equal basis  • strive to achieve this right, despite many challenges • far lower participation in labour market • variety of work and employment models • ensure that all who have capability and interest in working supported to come closer to jobs in open labour market. • Collaborate with all stakeholders

10. UNCRPD – Article 27 • ‘the right of persons with disabilities to work, on an equal basis with others; this includes the right to the opportunity to gain a living by work freely chosen or accepted in a labour market and work environment that is open, inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities’

11. Day service differences • Report by European Commission • Sheltered workshops • Reasonable accommodation • Supported employment

12. Sheltered workshops • Great variety across Europe • ‘Provide productive activities for disabled individuals who are unable to access the open labour market.’

13. Sheltered workshops • Sheltered workshops are not economically viable without public subsidies • Potential intangible benefits, i.e. quality of life benefit to sheltered employees, should be measured in a full economic assessment of the value of sheltered workshops Reasonable Accommodation and Sheltered Workshops for People with Disabilities: Costs and Returns of Investments European Commission 2015

14. Reasonable accommodation • Reasonable accommodation measures are cost-beneficial

15. Supported employment model • 3 stages - place - train - maintain

16. Supported employment outcomes • U.S. studies: Conclude that supported employment is significantly cost-beneficial versus sheltered workshops: benefit-cost ratio of 4.2 in favour of supported employment with monthly net benefit to individual of US$475.35, based on 104,213 supported employees with intellectual disabilities Cimera, R.E. (2008). The cost-trends of supported versus sheltered employment. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation

17. Pattern in Wales: Sheltered workshops Remploy • “increase employment opportunities of disabled people and those who experience complex barriers to work” • network of 54 local business sites • employ 2 500 + , some 2 200 with disabilities • subsidy per job of almost GB£25,000 for each supported disabled person • 2009/10, all worked at deficit: GB£63m

18. Pattern in Germany • Workshops funded by penalty payments by employers re quota law • 2013 • 684 main sheltered workshops • 301,093 disabled people • 33 232 took part in vocational training; 252,415 working in main workshops, 15,446 in daycare centres Federal Working Group of Sheltered Workshops BAG WfbM

19. Pattern in France • Sheltered workshops open to people with disabilities whose productive capacity is less than 33 % of non disabled person • Govt part-finances Etablissements et services d'aide par le travail (ESAT), cannot provide more than 50% of wage of participant • At least 5 % (with a target of 20 %) of total wages must be made up of income made by the sale of goods and services

20. Pattern in France • 2009: • 2010: study identified structural deficit of 5 - 7 % for ESATs, not always able to be covered by other economic activities

21. UNCRPD • Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities

22. UNCRPD – Article 19 • ‘the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and shall take effective and appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and participation in the community’

23. What is our responsibility? • Promote UNCRPD • Legal status as citizens • Promote transition to opportunities and support in open labour market • Create incentives in policy and funding

24. Thank you for listening! EASPD James Crowe Learning Disability Wales www.learningdisabilitywales.org.uk jim.crowe@learningdisabilitywales.org.uk

25. Pattern in Wales: Reasonable accommodation • Access to Work programme: • Provides funding towards additional disability-related costs of special equipment, adaptations to workplace, personal assistance, travel to work, • Supported 37,300 people of whom 45 % would be unemployed. • For every GB£1 spent, net return of GB£1.48 to govt • Supported employment : No clear funding channel