Scope can succeed where government has failed on disability employment

Analysis: The charity has partnered with Virgin Media in an attempt to close the stubbornly high gap between the rate of employment of disabled people and that of their able-bodied counterparts

The disability employment gap – the difference in the rate of employment of disabled and able-bodied people – has remained stubbornly high at around 30 per cent despite government promises to address the issue.

It first said it would halve the gap back in 2015, then said it planned to get a million unemployed disabled people into work. Now that target is being reviewed. Or is it just an ambition? I once had a fairly heated debate with a government press officer about the difference between the two when it came to halving the gap. It came to an end only after I supplied a copy of a government statement using the word “target”. Now, is that a can I see being kicked down the road?