The government should being doing more to encourage entrepreneurship among disabled people, according to one group.
Phil Friend, director and co-founder of disability consultants Minty and Friend, said: "At the moment, Jobcentre Plus, which is the main agency for helping people find work - particularly disabled people - don't really talk about self-employment as an option."
He added: "Disabled people themselves need the encouragement to give things a go."
Mr Friend added that people who had become disabled during their working life might need "a lot of help and support to see that it is possible to emerge and do something really constructive.
"Very often disabled people go in to self-employment because they simply can't get work anywhere else".
In November of last year Amar Latif was awarded the first Stelios Disabled Entrepreneur Award.
Mr Latif set up Traveleyes, the first UK- based commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for visually impaired people.
