What can larger organisations learn from small businesses when it comes to disability inclusion? Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Impact Awards 2026 finalists and winners show how practical action, innovation and inclusive cultures are driving meaningful change for disabled people.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming smarter as it moves towards being applied strategically, but who is this technology really being designed by and for?
Today is the day when Primark’s latest venture into adaptive clothing hits its stores. Its adaptive fashion range includes 49-pieces for men and women, based on its best-seller items and designed with needs of disabled people in mind. Through the collection, Primark aims to create affordable fashion which quite literally works for every body. Fashion…
The deadline for Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards 2025 has been extended until 26 January, so there is still time to submit your nomination. The Disability Smart Inclusive Product Design Award is a great opportunity for brands to showcase the work they are doing to not only make their products more accessible but their…
Before we take a break, (our office is closed from 5 pm on Tuesday 24 December until Thursday 2 January at 9 am), here are some highlights from this year. During 2024, we: Maximise your membership Are you getting the most out of your membership? Our Maximise your membership hub features video guides to your…
Last week, we added a new collection of images to our Disability Smart Image Bank. Here disabled models Courtney and Fleur tell us why our ‘Changing the image of disability’ campaign and Disability Smart Image Bank are so important to them. For Courtney, who has a mental health condition, deciding to become a model for…
At Business Disability Forum (BDF) we have been considering everything our Members and Partners, and disabled people working with them, will need from a future Government to expand disability inclusion even further, in their own organisations as well as in society. We have identified the 5 key strategies from a future Government to allow this…
Two significant new acts have come into force for employers and employees in the UK. One is The Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023; the other is The Carer’s Leave Act 2023. We responded to the Government consultations on both pieces of legislation, drawing on the views of our Members and Partners. For this blog,…
How might it feel to rarely see yourself represented in the images you see in the media, marketing and advertising? Would you want to work for an organisation, buy products or access services from a business where you feel invisible, overlooked or misunderstood? 1 in 4 people in the UK have a disability, but in…
Last week saw the publication of the UK government’s Disability Action Plan. The purpose of the Disability Action Plan was to provide short-term measures that the government can achieve during 2024, in the run up to the next general election. The government has stated that the Disability Action Plan and the longer-term National Disability Strategy…
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…
New research released today by #valuable has found disability is still woefully absent from the majority of board level discussions globally.
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