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You are here: Home > Publications and Reports: Publications Publications on disability policy and strategyPlease select from the following:
Strategic Plan 2008 - 2013Breakthrough UK’s mission is to promote the rights, responsibilities and respect of disabled people. We have translated our Mission into a number of Strategic Aims, all of which are intended to ‘support disabled people to play a full, economically active role in society'. This strategy lays out the key aims and indicators of the range of work Breakthrough UK plan to undertake over the next 5 years and beyond.
Response to Department for Work and Pensions Consultation, March 2008The Department for Work and Pensions published a consultation paper in December 2007 entitled: "Helping people achieve their full potential: Improving Specialist Disability Employment Services". The consultation period ended on March 10th 2008. Breakthrough UK has submitted a full response which can be found below:
Breakthrough UK 1997 - 200710 years of breaking down barriersThis is a summary of the evaluation carried out by Professor Alan Roulstone, De Montfort University.
Breakthrough UK Annual ReviewsAnnual Review 2006
Annual Review 2005
Advocacy Centre Factsheets and BookletsBreakthrough's Independent Employment Advocacy Centre has produced a range of useful resources on disability and employment. These include factsheets, booklets, a monthly e-bulletin and a quarterly magazine.
Jobs not Charity Final Report(January 2006) This ground-breaking research was carried out by Dr. Dan Goodley and his team from Sheffield University in 2005. Working in partnership with Breakthrough UK and the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP), the 'Jobs not Charity' project researched the role of organisations of disabled people in supporting disabled people into work. The research report:
Policy Think Tank Documents and Reports.The Policy Think Tank is a Breakthrough UK initiative and has two major aims:
Members of the Think Tank include some Breakthrough staff and directors, leading academics in the field, people working in disability issues in a social model way, and people who are significant in disability politics. All are disabled people. Response to Welfare Reform Consultation(April 2006) This is a response to the Green Paper "A new deal for welfare: Empowering people to work". Whilst the Green Paper contains many recommendations which should be successful in addressing the systemic problems in the current benefits system – such as the general tendency of the medical profession to not steer people towards a realistic route back to work and the in-built inertia of the welfare system: it is our belief that the Green Paper signally fails to realise the opportunity to radically impact upon the dilemma that is the employment status of large numbers of disabled people. The opportunity to create meaningful and lasting welfare reform is a rare one. We believe the most important principle to be that of involving disabled people, so that developments can draw on their standpoint. We are keen to engage with policy makers on these matters.
Response to Government Consultation.(September 2005) This response to the government's consultation on the proposed Office for Disability Issues, National Forum for Organisations of Disabled People and Individualised Budgets has been drawn together by the Policy Think Tank - a group comprising only disabled people who are practitioners, academics, activists and people who run organisations.
Response to the Census Consultation.(August 2005) This response to the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has been produced collaboratively by the Policy Think Tank, with input from many of its members. It calls for the ONS to make radical improvements in the census questions they ask to gather information on disabled people.
Response to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit.(May 2005) This is a response from the Policy Think Tank to the report of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (PMSU) on "Improving the Life Chances of Disabled People".
Business Inclusion Conference Reports.(2004 and 2005) These can be downloaded from our Employment Information page.
Independent Living Skills Evaluation Report.(July 2004)
Disabled People "Thriving and Surviving" at Work.(July 2003)
Landing a Job Handbook.(June 2001)
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