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BBC Scotland Investigates

2013

Episode 3: Parking the Disabled

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One Scotland HDLatest broadcast: on BBC One Scotland

In Scotland only half of all people with a disability are in work. BBC Scotland investigates if one of the Government's most ambitious welfare reforms, costing billions of pounds, can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Reporter Sam Poling reveals the private companies who are getting rich from the new reforms despite only being able to get a small fraction of disabled people back to work, and speaks to the charities who feel the most vulnerable in our society are being failed. Show less

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