{"id":477482,"date":"2025-10-06T05:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477482\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T05:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:52:10","slug":"gordon-lyons-to-launch-new-strategy-aims-to-get-more-people-with-disabilities-into-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477482\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lyons to launch new strategy aims to get more people with disabilities into work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s economic inactivity rate is 26%. This means that more than 300,000 people of working age are not active in the labour market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost 40% of that figure is due to ill-health or disability, according to the Department for Communities (DfC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said Northern Ireland has the worst disability employment rate (41.3%) &#8211; the proportion of people with disabilities who are in work &#8211; compared to the UK-wide figure of 52.8%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new proposed strategy aims to ensure more people with disabilities or health conditions can access an &#8220;inclusive and welcoming labour market&#8221;, the department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lyons said Northern Ireland&#8217;s record on disability employment &#8220;has not been good enough&#8221; and &#8220;real change is needed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My focus is on those who have felt excluded from the world of work and making sure that the right supports are in place at the right time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s economic inactivity rate is 26%. This means that more than 300,000 people of working age are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-477482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115325668176202262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}