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<p>The Disability Confident scheme was formally launched by the Department for Work
and Pensions in November 2016. It is designed to give employers the skills, techniques
and confidence they need to recruit, retain and develop disabled staff.</p><p> </p><p>The
scheme has three levels. To reach Level Three, Disability Confident Leader, an employer
must run through a self-assessment of their disabled employment policies and practices,
put this self-assessment up for external validation, produce a plan for encouraging
and supporting other employers to become Disability Confident, and undertake to use
the Voluntary Reporting framework to publicly report on how they support their disabled
staff. All of the main Government Departments are now signed up as Disability Confident
Leaders including the Ministry of Defence (MOD).</p><p> </p><p>The data regarding
the proportion of candidates who declared themselves as having a disability and who
applied to MOD under the scheme who were promoted or laterally transferred could only
be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p><p>The table below details the number
of staff invited to interview who declared themselves as having a disability and also
applied under the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Only internal applicants have
been included as they are the only staff who can be promoted or laterally transferred.</p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Area interviewed</p></td><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>Percentage
of total (%)</p></td><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>Percentage of total (%)</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>MOD
(including SDA and DE&S)</p></td><td><p>433</p></td><td><p>26</p></td><td><p>439</p></td><td><p>27</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p><strong>Notes / Caveats -</strong></p><ul><li>All data is taken from the feed
from the recruitment systems used between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2022. The
data will only include MOD applications that took place on recruitment systems between
these dates.</li></ul><p> </p><p> </p>
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