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 senior leaders can play in driving culture change around diversity and inclusion. I have summarised the 5 key areas I covered in the article below. “Normalising…
By Angela Matthews, Head of Policy and Research 3 December is UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Angela Matthews, Business Disability Forum’s Head of Policy and Research suggests that employers should use the day to really listen to their disabled employees. As disabled people (“people” rather than “persons” is my preference), we are used…
Bela Gor, Head of Legal and Content, Business Disability Forum As Father’s Day approaches (20 June in the UK) once again I take out the card I bought for my father but never got to send. It shows a red cricket ball spinning into yellow stumps against a blue sky. My father loved cricket and…
The story of disability discrimination law in the UK is closely tied to my own career and so here follows a very personal reflection of 25 years of disability discrimination legislation. On 2 December 1996, the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 came into force. Six days earlier I had started work as the UK’s first specialist disability discrimination lawyer for a law…
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