Employment and workforce

Explore our guidance on all areas of disability and employment.

Last updated: 7 April 2025

Employment and workforce

A core area of disability inclusion is ensuring disabled people are able to thrive in your workforce. Here we present a comprehensive range of guidance on recruiting and retaining disabled employees including:

Toolkits:
- People Manager Toolkit – BDF Member and Partner only
- Recruitment Toolkit – includes some free resources
- Occupational Health mini-Toolkit – BDF Member and Partner only
- Redundancy and Redeployment Toolkit – free and open to all
- Disability Confident Toolkit – includes some free resources.
Managing support workers:
- Guidance for employers on integrating support workers into the workforce.
Resources:
- Essential resources on key topics relating to disability and employment, such as data monitoring and making workplace adjustments.

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Toolkits

Managing support workers

Explore our range of resource on managing support workers, proudly sponsored by HSBC.

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Member and Partner only

Developing an approach to managing support workers

Support workers assist disabled employees to do their jobs. This resource outlines how employers can facilitate support workers.

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Member and Partner only

How to manage funding of support workers

The three main ways employers can manage the funding of support workers.

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Member and Partner only

Managing support workers employed by the disabled person

What employers should do when a member of staff employs a support worker themselves.

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Member and Partner only

Managing support workers employed by the organisation

What employers can do to facilitate employees whose support workers are employed directly by the organisation.

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Member and Partner only

Managing outsourced support workers

How employers should engage support workers provided by an external agency.

A blind woman uses a braille note while sitting working beside a colleague in an office. They are both smiling.

Open to all

Interview – Working with a support worker

We spoke with Joel, who shares his experience of using a support worker.

Resources

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Open to all

Career development – Disabled employees and professional growth

Career development and career progression are central part of many of our working lives. Yet often, disabled employees can find it harder to develop their careers in the directions they…

Open to all

Reasonable adjustments decision process

This process and form is most helpful where organisations feel an adjustment might be unreasonable for them to make. This document will help a manager make an evidence-based decision about…

Recruitment Toolkit banner image.

Open to all

Data monitoring and disability

Begin with the end in mind – know what you want to achieve with data monitoring and let that determine what you ask.

Open to all

Data monitoring – Asking about disability

This is a brief guide to how and most importantly why organisations should ask their workforce about disability.

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