Business Disability Forum is calling on the Prime Minister to rethink his decision to downgrade the Disability Minister role and instead use this as an opportunity to make disabled people a government priority. Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum, said: “We remain shocked and deeply concerned by the Government’s decision to replace the Disability…
Business Disability Forum (BDF) has opened nominations for its Disability Smart Awards 2024 (1 December) along with launching a new A to Z of disability resource with free information for all businesses. Disability Smart Awards 2024: Open for nominations The Disability Smart Awards 2024 are free to enter and open to UK and global organisations…
Lucy Ruck, BDF’s Taskforce Manager, talks about our Changing the image of disability campaign. How often do you see yourself? I’m not talking about seeing yourself in a mirror, but see yourself represented in media, advertising and marketing? Until the Paralympics, I’d never really seen an amputee/person with a prosthetic, unless it was in a…
The focus of today’s (22 November) Autumn Statement was very much growth, with no less than 110 measures announced – though the Chancellor jokingly reassured the Commons that he wasn’t going to go through every single one. A key theme was capitalising on better-than-expected economic figures, with National Insurance reductions, measures to tackle barriers to…
Responding to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, today (22 November), Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum, said: “We are left concerned and saddened by many of the measures for disabled people claiming benefits announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement today and in recent days. “Many disabled people who want to work struggle to find a…
Sam Buckley, our Policy Engagement Manager, shares highlights from the ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference on 1 November (sponsored by HSBC). The ‘Better Together with Tech’ panel at our Global Conference wasn’t the only place people were discussing the impact of AI on 1 November. But it was definitely the most optimistic. …
Rebecca Elliott, Disability Business Partner at Business Disability Forum, looks back on the ‘Working together to tap into disabled talent’ panel discussions at our Global Conference on 1 November 2023 (sponsored by HSBC). As a Disability Business Partner, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to navigate the complexities of collaboration across different…
Business Disability Forum has published a series of short guides today (7 November) offering advice to all businesses on how to welcome disabled customers and employees with assistance and support animals. ‘Guide dogs, assistance animals and emotional support animals’ explains the different types of animals that some disabled people rely on in their daily lives….
The Global Roundtable was kindly sponsored by HSBC. By Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum I’m sure many of you will have asked – or been asked – a variant of an equally tough question, “How do we approach disability inclusion as a company when we have a hundred offices in a dozen different…
We’ve just had Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24 September). This was, quite rightly, a time to stress the importance of employers having a good occupational health function in place. You might have seen some of our advice for employers released to mark the week. It comes back to a vital point: occupational health can play…
This week is Occupational Health Awareness Week and to mark it, we want to support employers to start a discussion about their use of occupational health for their workforce. Back in June, we published The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023, sponsored by Microlink, which included feedback from managers and employees with disabilities and long-term…
There is a great urban legend about the moment the BBC resumed normal television programming in 1946, after the Second World War. Just before picking up precisely where the channel had left off in 1939, the announcer said: “As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…” Is it just a legend? Sadly, yes….
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