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The ‘Disability Price Tag’ for disabled employees
The extra costs of being disabled are many and diverse. Scope calls this the Disability Price Tag, and their latest findings are that disabled people’s households need an additional £975…
Your role in leading culture change
By Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum I was recently asked to write for CEO Strategy Magazine on being a leader. I discussed the influential and unique role…
Disability passports and adjustment plans: The top 5 things to do (and not do)
Tailored adjustments plans, disability plans, workplace adjustments plans – whatever you call them, they are a regular topic of discussion with our members across almost every sector. At our last…
Progression: do your employees have careers, or do they just have jobs?
The Government has been putting more emphasis on access to employment – especially good quality, well-paid jobs. Encouragingly, the Government have acknowledged that making this happen for disabled people is…
Better support for disabled people in work: will the government’s new plans deliver?
Last Wednesday (15 March) saw both the Chancellor’s budget statement and the release of the Government’s ‘Transforming Support: The Health and Disability White Paper’. The Government’s focus , including in…
The gap between language and data
Disability workforce reporting and how the number of disabled people in organisations is hardly ever accurately reflected in workforce data stays on our agenda. A recent article in Practice Business…
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