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Disability Smart Self-Assessment

How disability smart is your organisation? Find out by starting your Self-Assessment journey today.

Over the shoulder image of a woman holding a pen and a tablet and looking at the 10 sections of BDF's Disability Smart Assessment

Assess how your organisation is doing against the ten areas of our Disability Smart Framework using our self-assessment tool (Available to Members and Partners only).

What is it?

It’s a diagnostic tool to identify weaknesses, gaps, and where your organisation is currently on your disability inclusion journey.

How does it work?

• To complete the process accurately, you’ll need support from teams across the organisation giving you the opportunity to get the whole organisation involved in and behind disability inclusion.
• Completing a self-assessment isn’t something you can do in an afternoon. Think of it more like a journey.
• The process involves 137 ‘yes’ or ‘no’ questions. You can create multiple accounts to allocate sections and questions to different team members across your organisation.
• There’s no requirement to submit or upload evidence and your results won’t be made public.

What are the benefits?

• Shape your disability inclusion strategy.
• Engage the wider organisation on disability inclusion.
• Repeat the process multiple times to see how you’ve progressed.

What you’ll get after

• Full debrief session with a BP or SBP and a presentation delving into the results of your assessment.
• A full detailed report covering your results and scores for each area.

Start or resume your self-assessment (Superusers only)

Unsure who your organisation’s superuser is? Email enquiries@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk

Need some help?

Access our Disability Smart Toolkit to guide you through the process or get in touch with your BP or SBP.

Read what some of our  Members and Partners had to say:

We found colleagues at BDF extremely helpful and responsive to answering practical queries around completing the assessment itself. The advice service provided some useful examples of best practice and a really in-depth response to a query regarding some of the recommendations made in the report. It is so helpful to have tangible suggestions on the steps we can take to become a more disability smart organisation.

Rose Fieber – Administration Officer for EDI, Nursing and Midwifery Council 

At Bank of Ireland, our purpose is to enable our customers, colleagues and communities to thrive. At the heart of this purpose is our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity. Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Self-Assessment aligned with our company’s purpose and provided us with the tools and clear structure to critically review, measure and improve disability and accessibility performance across every facet of our company.    We were delighted to use the Disability Smart Self-Assessment to measure our progress and gain Bronze status ‘Disability Standard’ accreditation.

Alan Wright – Accessibility Optimisation Lead, Bank of Ireland 

At HSBC, we aspire to be a disability confident business which benefits our colleagues, our customers and wider society. To understand what stage we were on our journey, we required an independent best practice method of assessment capable of providing a holistic overview of disability in our business. The BDF self-assessment provided this and the resulting action plan allowed effort and resource to be positioned on both short and long term goals to help progress towards being a truly ability confident bank.

Coral Taylor – Head of Diversity & Inclusion, HSBC Global Services (UK) Ltd

“The use of disability self-assessment has proven to be an exceptionally valuable tool in our journey to create disability awareness within our company. It has provided us with a structured and insightful way to evaluate our current practices, identify areas for improvement, and foster a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by people with disabilities in our workplace. This process has not only allowed us to address specific issues but has also instilled a sense of empathy and commitment among our employees, driving positive change and making our company a more inclusive and supportive environment for all.”

Alicja Marcinek, Global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Consultant

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