Only half of all people with a disability are in work. BBC’s Panorama investigates if one of the government’s most ambitious welfare reforms, costing billions of pounds, can solve the problem of disability unemployment. Reporter Sam Poling reveals the private companies who are getting rich from the new reforms despite only being able to get a small fraction of disabled people back to work, and speaks to the charities and individuals who feel the most vulnerable in our society are being failed.

Watch The Great Disability Scam on iplayer – 30 minutes

TV producer Kate Ansell’s comments on the programme