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

Find out more about our forum for disabled employees who lead disability or neurodiversity networks and how to get involved.
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.
Wheelchair user with Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome meets with two colleagues in an office.
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Work and health policy forum

Find out about our forum which focuses on employee health, and the link between health and work.
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.
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

Read about the UK Government’s reform on flexible working rights, including our response to the “Making flexible working the default” consultation.
Professional who wears a prosthetic leg giving a presentation to 3 colleagues in an office.
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Transforming Public Procurement

Read our response to Government proposals to bring over 350 EU-based procurement rules into a UK framework in 2021.
A male wheelchair user holds a T shirt up in a clothing store to show a friend.
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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.
Close up on a professional's hands as they work at a desk using an ergonomic mouse. They are wearing a wrist support.
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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.
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.
A group of people with diverse disabilities in a work meeting. Left to right: A woman with a mental health condition, a woman with hearing loss and a woman with a prosthetic limb
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Enforcement of the Equality Act

Read our response to the Women and Equalities Committee’s Inquiry on the Enforcement of the Equality Act, from 2018.
Woman who is short in stature using a step stool in a library
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Workplace adjustment passports

Read the evidence we submitted to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence in 2019 about the use of workplace adjustment passports.
A Deaf man using a laptop in a library
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Men and mental health

Read evidence we submitted to the Women and Equalities Committee in 2019 on the 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

Read our response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry on human rights protections in international agreements.
Person shows a diagram on a notepad to a colleague, both have less-visible disabilities
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Health is everyone’s business

Read our response to proposals to reduce ill health-related jobs loss outlined in the ‘Health is Everyone’s Business’ Government paper.
Young woman wearing protective face mask and hand controlling steering wheel in her car
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Unequal impact of Covid-19

Read our submission to the Women and Equalities Committee’s enquiry into the impact of early COVID-19 responses on disabled people.

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