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Proportion of adults with learning disabilities in paid employment (10672) Metric type
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- The measure shows the proportion of all adults (aged 18-64) with a learning disability who are known to the council, who are recorded as being in paid employment. The definition of individuals 'known to the council' is restricted to those adults with a learning disability (with a primary client group of LD) who have been assessed or reviewed by the council during the year (irrespective of whether or not they receive a service) or who should have been reviewed but were not. The measure is focused on 'paid' employment, to be clear that voluntary work is to be excluded for the purposes of this measure.
Paid employment is measured using the following two categories:- Working as a paid employee or self-employed (16 or more hours per week); and,
- Working as a paid employee or self-employed (up to 16 hours per week).
A 'paid employee' is one who works for a company, community or voluntary organisation, council or other organisation and is earning at or above the National Minimum Wage. This includes those who are working in supported employment (i.e. those receiving support from a specialist agency to maintain their job) who are earning at or above the National Minimum Wage.
'Self-employed' is defined as those who work for themselves and generally pay their National Insurance themselves. This should also include those who are unpaid family workers (i.e. those who do unpaid work for a business they own or for a business a relative owns).
In 2014/15 the change from ASC-CAR to SALT resulted in a change to who is included in the measure. Previously, this measure included 'all adults with a learning disability who are known to the council. However, SALT table LTS001a only captures those clients who have received a long-term service in the reporting year. Furthermore, the measure now only draws on the subset of these clients who have a primary support reason of Learning Disability Support; those clients who may previously have been included in the client group Learning Disability in ASC-CAR might not have a primary support reason of Learning Disability Support, and are now excluded from the measure.
Only covers people receiving partly or wholly supported care from their Local Authority and not wholly private, self-funded care.
Data source: SALT.
- Modified
- 15 May 2023
- Data last updated
- 08 Dec 2023
- Also known as
- ASCOF 1E
- NHSOCF 2.2
- Short label
- % of adults with learning disabilities in paid employment
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Per cent
- Dataset
- Adults with learning disabilities in paid employment
- Source
- NHS Digital
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