Joel Young, Senior Disability Business Partner at BDF, shares his experience of using a support worker and gives advice for employers on facilitating support workers within their organisation. I’ve used support workers for about 12 years now, having lived experience of vision impairment. I refer to them as ‘access assistants’. ‘Support worker’ to me feels…
Our CEO Diane Lightfoot discusses what employers can do to include people with learning disabilities into their teams. Identity means very different things to different people and it can change many times in a lifetime. Our Identity is shaped by our experiences and the world around us. It is also shaped by what we do…
It’s no secret that I’m passionate about working from home. I work full time from my home office, but the other week I travelled 100 miles to the BDF conference in London. The first session of the day gripped me because of the topic – “Where we work?”Bela Gor and Emily Jackson joined Asset Manager,…
The popularity of chatbots has once again put artificial intelligence (AI) in the spotlight, not least because of the many challenges the technology poses for organisations. One aspect that is too often overlooked is the role AI can play in inclusion – or exclusion. How do we ensure that AI doesn’t replicate or intensify barriers…
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