The disabled workforce

There are no reliable statistics about the voluntary sector disabled workforce. Nationally and across all sectors we know that 4.4 million disabled people were in employment in the last quarter of 2019 – this represents a little over half of the total population of 8.1 million working aged disabled adults. Although it has fallen slightly since 2013, the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled people was still around 28% in 2019. Disabled people were twice as likely to move out of work than non-disabled people. The employment rate gap was highest for people aged 50-64, and disabled people in this group were also twice as likely to have moved out of work than non-disabled people of the same age.