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Government should encourage disabled entrepreneurship
Posted by peopleperhour.com -
13/01/2008 00:01
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 Disabled people should be given more encouragement to start their own businesses, according to a consultancy.
Minty and Friend, which specialises in helping disabled workers, believes that many disabled people who may be thinking of going freelance or founding a small firm often feel discouraged.
He suggests that self-employment should more actively be put forward as a viable job option.
"At the moment, Jobcentre Plus, which is the main agency for helping people find work - particularly disabled people - don't really talk about self-employment as an option… Disabled people in that sense may not be encouraged to think about [it]," said director Phil Friend.
"Clearly self-employment isn't right for everyone, but as an option it ought to be explored."
He added that the government should spend more on advertising and talking about the issues of entrepreneurship for disabled people.
"Disabled people themselves need the encouragement to give things a go," said Mr Friend, himself a wheelchair user.
Separately, research from easyJet and Leonard Cheshire finds that there are around seven million Britons of working age with a long-term disability, and around half of them are out of work.
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