The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has unveiled plans to help more people with disabilities get jobs within the housing sector.

Moves by the institute will see it help 120 adults with disabilities to find work with housing organisations across Britain over the next five years.

In addition, individuals on the scheme will receive mentoring and training, while housing organisations will benefit from support on how best to adapt and benefit from the talents of those people with disabilities.

Overall, the scheme is worth some £480,000.

It was also reported that those with disabilities account for a high proportion of those living in social housing.

Richard Warrington, manager for the CIH project, said: "Disabled people are over-represented in social housing as a proportion of the population and under-represented as the employees of housing organisations."

In other news, the Liberal Democrats recently reported that housing associations and councils should have more power to be able to purchase land to build social housing developments.

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