Self-employment for disabled people is significant from anumber of different policy perspectives:• promoting entrepreneurship among disadvantagedgroups (one of the aims of the SmallBusiness Service),• narrowing the gap in employment rates betweendisabled people and the rest of the population...

Government policies on disability – and criticism of them – rest in parton an understanding of the circumstances of disabled people informedby cross-sectional survey data, dividing the population into “thedisabled” and “the non-disabled”. While conceptual debates about thenature of...