Disabled employees ‘need more social care’

Disabled employees have not received the level of social care they deserve, it has been suggested. Head of policy and campaigns at the Multiple Sclerosis Society (MSS) Laura Weir said working-age adults with disabilities have been failing to get adequate services for a number of years.

“These include people who experience ill health, injury or disability, as well as older people, but adults of working age have been woefully neglected in the social care debate,” she remarked.

According to Ms Weir, an overarching strategy is required to tackle the problems facing disabled employees and other individuals in need of guidance.

Funding needs to be committed in a sustainable fashion, she added, urging those in power to discard the “postcode lottery” that exists in the present system.

Ms Weir recently stated that disabled employees with MS are particularly in need of more support, following the MSS’s attendance at a conference on the subject hosted by health secretary Andy Burnham.