Consultation outcome

Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes (independent review)

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 27 July 2015
• Last updated: 5 December 2016 — See all updates

This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

Dame Carol Black published her independent report ‘Drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity: effects on employment outcomes’ on 5 December 2016.

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Original consultation

Summary

A call for evidence to inform an independent review into the effects on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction and obesity.

This consultation ran from
27 July 2015 to 5pm on 11 September 2015

Consultation description

The government has asked Professor Dame Carol Black to undertake an independent review into how best to support benefit claimants with potentially treatable conditions, such as obesity or addictions to drugs and alcohol, back into work.

The review will consider the evidence and provide the government with a thorough analysis of the options available.

This call for evidence will be one of several methods used to gather information to inform the review.

Documents

An independent review into the impact on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction, and obesity: call for evidence

PDF, 135 KB, 14 pages

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Welsh: Adolygiad annibynnol i effaith ar ganlyniadau cyflogaeth o fod yn gaeth i gyffuriau neu alcohol, a gordewdra: galwad am dystiolaeth

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Published 27 July 2015
Last updated 5 December 2016 + show all updates

1. 5 December 2016

   Published consultation outcome.

2. 27 July 2015

   First published.