The Government has published its Disability Action Plan today (18 July). Business Disability Forum has responded as a member of the the Disability Charities Consortium (DCC). The DCC brings together CEOs and policy leads from nine of the UK’s leading not-for-profit disability organisations to work collaboratively to make sure disabled people’s experiences are reflected in UK…
Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, spoke at our Annual Conference: Back to the future on 28 June 2023 on the topic of retaining older disabled workers. Here are the highlights from his presentation and his recommendations for employers. Context The UK population is ageing, and so is the labour market: around 30% of the…
Our recent Annual Conference: Back to the Future included the panel discussion “The circle of life: who cares?” with speakers Natalie Quilter, Eleni Katsoulis, Chantel Emery and Daniel Cadey talking about working carers. Read the highlights from the session by our Disability Business Partner Becky Elliott. Watching our Annual Conference remotely, I was looking forward…
By Dan Williams. Dan Williams is the Founding Director of BDF Member Visualise Training and Consultancy – the workplace accessibility and inclusion experts. In this blog, he looks at how challenges faced by employees with hearing loss or visual impairment can be overcome. Hearing loss, deafness, tinnitus and sight loss affect 14 million people in…
Steve Ingham CBE, former CEO of PageGroup, is to become the new Chair of Business Disability Forum (BDF). The non-profit business and disability inclusion membership organisation announced the new appointment today (5 July). Steve will take over from BDF’s current Chair, Steve Miller, in November. Steve Miller, who is Group CIO of International Personal Finance,…
Our hybrid Annual Conference Back to the Future – how should employers respond to ‘the new normal’?, sponsored by NatWest, took place on Wednesday 28 June 2023 and was attended by over 500 people. If you weren’t able to join us, here we share some of the highlights and key takeaways from the conference. Many…
“I didn’t identify as disabled as such during university,” a graduate told us during The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023, recalling the support and flexibility she had as a research student. “It’s only now in the workplace that I feel disabled.” This was an experience common to many disabled students reaching the end of…
Our CEO Diane Lightfoot is on the Inspirational d&i Leaders 2023 list. Congratulations Diane! Earlier this year d&I Leaders asked 321+ international diversity, equity and inclusion professionals the question – ‘Which diversity and inclusion leader inspires you the most?’, as part of the d&i Leaders Global Benchmarking Survey 2023. Diane was among the inspirational leaders…
The majority (64 per cent) of disabled graduates find it difficult or very difficult to apply for jobs due to disability-related barriers. Just over half (57 per cent) do not feel well-prepared to discuss disability with a potential employer and over a quarter (27 per cent) say they cannot access the same adjustments they had…
Our annual conference Back to the future: How should employers respond to “the new normal”? sponsored by NatWest is on Wednesday 28 June. In the run up to the event, Oliver Holbourn, CEO of RBS International talks to BDF CEO Diane Lightfoot about what NatWest is doing to recruit and retain disabled graduates, how businesses…
The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 results are in. And let us start by saying: we’ve got a lot to tell you, just as the research had a lot to tell us. Thanks to you – the 1,500 employees and 400 managers who shared their views with us, and those of you among our…
Business Disability Forum (BDF) has published one of the most comprehensive pieces of research ever conducted into the workplace experiences of disabled people and people with long term conditions in the UK today (20 June). The Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey 2023 looks at the experiences of nearly 1,500 disabled employees and 400 managers around…
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