{"id":70707,"date":"2021-12-03T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=70707"},"modified":"2021-12-16T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T18:31:29","slug":"we-have-skills-employ-people-with-disabilities-says-cardiff-campaigner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/we-have-skills-employ-people-with-disabilities-says-cardiff-campaigner","title":{"rendered":"We have skills: employ people with disabilities says Cardiff campaigner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">People with disabilities in Wales still face many barriers to employment according to a local campaigner on International Day of Persons with Disabilities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"535\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves-.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves-.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--770x434.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/Josh-Reeves--293x165.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Joshua Reeves runs&nbsp;&#8220;Don\u2019t&nbsp;Call Me Special&#8221; an initiative to change mindsets on disability. Photo Cred: Joshua Reeves, modified by the author<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welsh people with&nbsp;disabilities&nbsp;still face&nbsp;employment barriers that need to be addressed by&nbsp;employers and&nbsp;the Government,&nbsp;according to&nbsp;a&nbsp;local disability campaigner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cardiff-based&nbsp;campaigner,&nbsp;Joshua Reeves calls for&nbsp;legislative action,&nbsp;visibility&nbsp;and understanding&nbsp;this International Day of Persons with Disabilities&nbsp;to improve&nbsp;the&nbsp;employment rate&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;400,000&nbsp;plus disabled&nbsp;people&nbsp;in Wales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think the Government&nbsp;needs to step up and just say&nbsp;to&nbsp;employers,&nbsp;look,&nbsp;you need to reach a certain&nbsp;target&nbsp;each year of employing someone with a disability,\u201d said&nbsp;Reeves.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDisabled people&nbsp;have got&nbsp;a lot of skills and&nbsp;qualities.&nbsp;We\u2019re&nbsp;just being wasted because no one wants us.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a disparity between the number of disabled people in employment compared to those without a disability,&nbsp;with 52.7% of people with a disability in work in 2021 compared to 81% of people without a disability according to the Office for National Statistics.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/httpswww.gov_.ukgovernmentstatisticsthe-employment-of-disabled-people-2021the-employment-of-disabled-people-2021-2-410x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70915\" width=\"763\" height=\"1906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/httpswww.gov_.ukgovernmentstatisticsthe-employment-of-disabled-people-2021the-employment-of-disabled-people-2021-2-410x1024.png 410w, 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East&nbsp;at&nbsp;22.4%.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A necessary step&nbsp;to&nbsp;improving the&nbsp;situation&nbsp;includes enshrining the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) into legislation&nbsp;in Wales&nbsp;for the protection of workers\u2019 rights,&nbsp;according to Reeves.&nbsp;This&nbsp;sentiment was echoed by Jane Hutt,&nbsp;Minister for Social Justice in the Senedd earlier this week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other barriers include tackling&nbsp;misconceptions&nbsp;about the realities of employing a person with a disability. \u201c[Employers]&nbsp;think&nbsp;disabled&nbsp;people need&nbsp;equipment,&nbsp;a lot of attention&nbsp;and&nbsp;a lot of&nbsp;assistance&nbsp;during their&nbsp;work time,\u201d&nbsp;said Reeves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany&nbsp;disabled [people]&nbsp;know how to work in the workplace and&nbsp;don\u2019t&nbsp;require a lot of&nbsp;assistance,\u201d said Reeves.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government&nbsp;funding&nbsp;is&nbsp;available&nbsp;to employers&nbsp;to help facilitate&nbsp;people with disabilities in the workplace,&nbsp;with&nbsp;equipment and&nbsp;software&nbsp;available such as Dragon which allows people to dictate text rather than type.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"534\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/men-at-desk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/men-at-desk.jpg 950w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/men-at-desk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/men-at-desk-770x433.jpg 770w, 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in the UK in 2021 according to the ONS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;lack of&nbsp;visibility and accessibility for disabled people&nbsp;in the workplace&nbsp;is&nbsp;well&nbsp;entrenched&nbsp;and has&nbsp;only&nbsp;been highlighted by the recent uptick in people working from&nbsp;home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It made me very upset and angry,&#8221; said Reeves. &#8220;As soon as the pandemic hit everyone was working from home but disabled people have been asking that for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt made me&nbsp;know&nbsp;that some employers are just&nbsp;hypocrites,\u201d said Reeves. \u201cA lot of employers get away with&nbsp;that they are disability confident but how many people have you got working there who are&nbsp;disabled?\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reeves worked alongside the Welsh Government and Debbie Foster, Professor of Employment Relations and Diversity&nbsp;at Cardiff University, to produce the \u201cLocked Out\u201d report which was published&nbsp;in July this year and seeks to readdress problems&nbsp;faced by&nbsp;people&nbsp;with&nbsp;disabilities&nbsp;which have been exacerbated by Covid-19.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWales is the first and only nation in the UK to have coproduced a report with disabled people and their&nbsp;organisations&nbsp;about the impact of Covid19,\u201d said Foster.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cWe are also unique in taking forward the lessons from the pandemic to try to address the future for disabled people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"535\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/senedd.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/12\/senedd.jpg 950w, 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