Journey to Work: Creating Pathways for Young Disabled People in New Zealand

April 28, 2010 According to Statistics New Zealand (2006), the more qualified disabled people are more likely to get a job, young disabled people are almost twice as likely as young non-disabled people to leave school without a qualification, disabled people with tertiary qualification are employed at about the same rate as non- disabled New Zealanders with no qualification, and over 75% of disabled people do not require any extra equipment or other modifications to work. Because of these statistics, Grant Cleland and Alexandra Smith published the report, Journey to Work: Creating Pathways for Young Disabled People in New . . .