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The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) has unveiled a prestigious new expert panel of judges for the recruitment industry’s only disability awards.

This Blue Monday (20 January) we’re marking the day by adding a new resource to our Mental Health Toolkit, exclusive to Members and Partners.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that in 2018 the median pay for non-disabled workers was £12.11 an hour, in comparison with £10.63 for disabled workers. Angela Matthews, head of policy and research shares her thoughts on the recent headlines around disability pay gap in Employee Benefits. This can be viewed at: employeebenefits.co.uk/angela-matthews-disability-gap/

Responding to comments made by the parliamentary candidate for Hastings and Rye on Friday in which she stated that people with learning disabilities should be paid less for their work, Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum, said: 

A leading non-profit disability and business organisation is calling on the future Government to commit to a series of actions to support businesses to deliver on disability inclusion.

Business Disability Forum Partner BBC has today unveiled a three-part plan designed to significantly improve representation of – and opportunities for - disabled people on and off air.

Business Disability Forum has been awarded funding to help smaller businesses (SMEs) in London make their jobs and services more accessible to disabled people.

Business Disability Forum is conducting research into disability inclusion at a global business level.

Unilever is strengthening its commitment to disability inclusion today by becoming an official Partner of the leading membership and business advice organisation, Business Disability Forum.

Today, the Office for Disability Issues moves out of the Department for Work and Pensions and into Cabinet Office. This means there is now a Disability Unit in Cabinet’s new Equalities Hub, which sits alongside the Race Disparities Unit in the Government Equalities Office (the latter which focusses on women, transgender, and sexual orientation).