This report breaks explores how disabled people who are already in work get and keep paid work. Drawing on experiences of disabled people themselves, it looks at difficulties experienced, the strategies they adopt and the policy context in which they work. The authors are all disabled people with a mix of practice and academic experience.

To date, studies of disabled people and employment have mainly focused on barriers to gaining employment. This report, published in association with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, breaks new ground in asking: how do those disabled people who are already working keep paid work? This accessible report: details the strategies disabled people use to thrive and survive at work; exposes the employment difficulties disabled people face in work environments designed by and for non-disabled people; looks at the policy context in which disabled people maintain paid work; draws on the experiences related by disabled people themselves; and frames questions in terms of the issues that are important to disabled workers. The findings will have an impact on policy and practice developments by indicating to policy makers and practitioners the ways in which disabled people thrive and survive at work. Disabled people, disabled people's organizations, employer and trades union opinion formers, policy mak