Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many Disability Employment Advisors by (a) full time equivalent and (b) headcount have been employed by her Department in each year since that role was introduced.
The staffing resource assigned to Work Coach and Disability Employment Adviser activities is given below, measured as Full Time Equivalents (FTEs) based on activity-based management (ABM) activities and Staff in Post (SiP).
Disability Employment Adviser is one of several activities that are counted as Work Coach activities. As such, Disability Employment Advisers are shown as a subset of Work Coaches.
It is shown as at the end of each financial year since 2018-19, when Work Coach activity was first recorded as a discrete role within our data.
National | Mar-19 | Mar-20 | Mar-21 |
Staff in Post | |||
Work Coaches | 16,315 | 16,191 | 27,286 |
of which | |||
Disability Employment Advisers1 | 555 | 657 | 585 |
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Full Time Equivalent (ABM activities)2 | |||
Work Coaches | 13,287 | 12,938 | 23,833 |
of which | |||
Disability Employment Advisers | 441 | 546 | 478 |
Central Scotland3 | Mar-19 | Mar-20 | Mar-21 |
Staff in Post | |||
Work Coaches | 479 | 290 | 403 |
of which | |||
Disability Employment Advisers1 | 17 | 12 | 11 |
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Full Time Equivalent (ABM activities)2 | |||
Work Coaches | 355 | 204 | 338 |
of which | |||
Disability Employment Advisers | 10 | 10 | 9 |
Notes to the tables