Government’s handicapped job pledge flops – just 152 new places created

The government has created just 152 extra jobs for people with a handicap despite pledging to ensure there were 3,000 more such jobs by the end of last year, the AD says on Friday.

The figures date from October 2015 and were calculated by the state-run job centre UWV.

In one in four of the country’s 35 employment regions, the number of jobs for people with a handicap has actually gone down compared with three years ago, the paper says.

The pledge is part of government policy to scrap sheltered work schemes and move people with disabilities into the regular workforce.