Focus areas

Policy and research priorities in 2024 – 2026

We believe that disabled people’s experiences in the UK can be transformed by business practice, alongside Government policy which is co-produced with businesses and disabled people. We aim for practical, workable, and inclusive ways to improve employment opportunities, drive economic growth, and create a fairer society.

Working closely with our Members and Partners, we choose our focus areas and design research projects that provide solutions for businesses, Government and policy makers, as well as highlighting what needs to change. We believe that finding the right solution with everyone’s input – business, disabled people, and Government – results in the best outcomes for everyone.

Each of our policy priority topics is supported and overseen by one of our topic forums or working groups, as well as our Disabled Employee Network Leaders Fourm which brings the lived experience perspective to our policy work.

Current policy priorities

Our policy priorities for 2024-2026 are:

Work and health – including Keep Britain Working (the Mayfield Review), flexible working, recovery while working, workplace health and adjustments. This workstream is supported by our Work and Health Policy Forum.

Disability employment gap – including the Access to Work scheme, the Disability Confident scheme, young people and unemployment (the Milburn Review), disabled professionals’ experiences of Personal Independence Payments (the Timms Review). This workstream is supported by our Access to Work Forum and our Disabled Employee Network Leaders Forum.

Workforce reporting and equality law – including disability workforce and pay gap reporting, equal pay protections, and the Public Sector Equality Duty. This workstream is supported by our Disability Data Monitoring Working Group.

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