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The government must do more to encourage entrepreneurship and self-employment as an alternative to the traditional job market for disabled people, according to disability consultants Minty & Friend.
Jobcentre Plus, which is the main agency for helping people find work –particularly disabled people – at the moment does not talk about self-employment as an option, the firm said.
Minty & Friend also maintained that the average disabled person feels discouraged from working and needs "a lot of help and support" in establishing a new business start-up.
On November 30th 2007, the first Stelios Disabled Entrepreneur Award, was awarded by easyJet in association with disability charity Leonard Cheshire Disability.
The prize was won by Amar Latif who set up Traveleyes as the first commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for visually impaired and sighted UK-based travellers.
According to easyJet and Leonard Cheshire, there are approximately seven million people of working age in the UK with a long-term disability, around 50 per cent of which are out of work.
Phil Friend, director of Minty & Friend, said: "The other thing on the government agenda would be to make a much bigger splurge on advertising and talking about the issues of self-employment and entrepreneurship, for disabled people particularly."
"Very often disabled people go into self-employment, or set up their own businesses, because they simply cant get work anywhere else," Mr Friend added.
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