Policy and research resources

Business Disability Forum's policy positions, responses to Government consultations, guidance and advice about disability inclusion policy.

Our Policy and Research team brings government, businesses, and disabled people together to think, debate and challenge new approaches to advancing disability inclusion in our economy and society. We produce new knowledge and bring bold and fresh approaches to policy problems, so that disabled people have better experiences of social and economic inclusion.

The resources in this section are free and open to all. They include our policy positions, responses to Government consultations and guidance and advice about disability inclusion policy.

To view our current focus areas, how Members and Partners can get involved in shaping disability policy, findings from our Great Big Workplace Adjustments Survey and more, see the Policy and Research page.

Resources

Group of people with diverse disabilities meeting in an office
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Disability Network Leaders’ Forum

Disability Network Leaders’ Forum If the answer is ‘yes’ to all of the above, join our Disability Network Leaders Forum! What is this Forum for? The reason this forum exists…
A library worker with a prosthetic limb hands a book to a customer
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Access to Work Forum

The Access to Work Forum is for BDF members who use and want to support and improve the Government’s Access to Work Scheme.
Fashion employee speaking on the phone while taking notes
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SME Business Forum

The SME Business Forum is for small, medium, and entrepreneur businesses to share practices, seek advice, and inform UK policy on disability as it affects their business.
Wheelchair user with Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome meets with two colleagues in an office.
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Work and health policy forum

There is a strong focus on work and health in the year ahead as the UK Government focuses even more on reforming the benefits system to get more disabled people…
Understanding how disability can impact on the process of grievance, disciplinary and capability proceedings.
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Disability Charities Consortium

The Disability Charities Consortium (DCC) brings together CEOs and policy leads from nine of the UK’s leading not-for-profit disability organisations.
Deaf person talks to colleagues at work. Left to right: A woman with a prosthetic limb, a Deaf woman
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Disability workforce reporting

Welcome to our disability workforce reporting hub page, the home of all of our current policy and research work on measuring disability related diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
overhead shot of two colleagues signing paperwork.
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Living and working with cancer

We responded to the Government’s consultation on their strategy for the next ten years of cancer care and treatment.
Blind person uses a laptop and braille note to work at a desk
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Flexible working reform

This page follows the development of the UK Government’s reform on flexible working rights, which began with the publication of their consultation titled “Making flexible working the default” in September…
Professional who wears a prosthetic leg giving a presentation to 3 colleagues in an office.
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Transforming Public Procurement

In March 2021, the Government proposals to bring over 350 EU-based procurement into a single UK regulatory framework closed.
Colleagues with less-visible disabilities meet in the quiet zone of an office, with paperwork, pens and notepads on the table between them. Left, a woman with ADHD, autsim, dyslexia and a mental health condition, middle, a woman with a brain injury and limited mobility, right a woman with vitiligo and diabetes.
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In-work progression for workers in lower paid roles

In December 2020, we consulted with members and disabled employees on the Government’s consultation and call for evidence on good practice on in work progression for staff in ‘entry level’ roles.
Two people's arms linking to aid physical support
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Supporting working carers

Business Disability Forum responded to the UK Government’s consultation on proposals to offer statutory carer’s leave to working carers.
Image of the BDF office, three colleagues all working on desktops
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Access to Work support cap

Business Disability Forum’s response to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry on the cap on Access to Work support grants.
A blind person uses a braille note to work at a desk
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Assistive technology in employment

Business Disability Forum’s response to the Work and Pensions Committees inquiry on assistive technology in employment.
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Progress of the disability employment gap

Disability employment gap – BDF’s repsonse to Work and Pensions Committee inquiry December 2020 The Work and Pensions Committee have held two inquiries into the disability employment gap, in 2018…
Woman with a mental health condition is emotionally supported by a colleague
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Disability and extreme poverty

Submission for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights in the United Kingdom.
Two male colleagues work in quiet zone booth in office
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Disabled people in public appointments

Evidence for the Lord Holmes Review of the representation of disabled people in public appointments This paper shows the wide disparity between the number of public appointments of disabled people…
Woman who is short in stature using a step stool in a library
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Workplace adjustment passports

WPA passports emerged in the 1990s when Business Disability Forum worked with the MS Society to produce a document for managers and employees to each have a record of agreed…
A Deaf man using a laptop in a library
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Men and mental health

Women and Equalities Committee: Mental health of men and boys.
A Deaf man speaks to his friend using sign language in a library
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Protecting human rights

Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR): Inquiry on human rights protections in international agreements.
Young woman wearing protective face mask and hand controlling steering wheel in her car
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Unequal impact of Covid-19

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