What barriers are facing disabled people in workplace?
Convener Claire Baker asked this as we continued our work on the disability employment gap.
Angela Matthews from Business Disability Forum explained what some of these were.
More about our work: ow.ly/RcAq50RA3QI
My updated list of the accessibility resources I use includes:
Orgs like GOV.UK Business Disability Forum Scope Nielsen Norman Group AbilityNet Christine Cawthorne Content Design London WebAIM
People like SheriByrneHaber Eric Eggert Meryl Evans, CPACC @la_pope Matisse Hamel-Nelis, ADS, CPACC (she/her) Alexa Heinrich & more
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#a11y
we are live King's College NHS celebrating Neurodiversity week with our colleague from Business Disability Forum
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek
Great #DisabilitySmartAwards2024 event with Bloomberg Business Disability Forum Nasser Siabi OBE and the marvelous digital team from HSBC UK
Really grateful for the opportunity to be a judge with Diane Lightfoot on behalf of CMI at tonight’s Business Disability Forum #DisabilitySmartAwards2024 in partnership with Bloomberg 👏🏾
I am thrilled to represent Amazon at this year's Business Disability Forum Awards Ceremony. Amazon is nominated for the #DisabilitySmart Inclusive Product Design this year.
Our Disability Workforce Reporting guide has been launched as a practical guide for people professionals 🌳
We have worked in partnership with Business Disability Forum on this guide and a report that sets out the case for Disability Workforce Reporting and provides an overview of the
Many employers might be looking at ways to improve their employees’ mental health and wellbeing for #MentalHealth AwarenessWeek . Our new blog gives essential information and recommendations to support employees: ow.ly/4WXe50RHjXh
#MentalHealth #Wellbeing
Our Member and Partner organisations have access to our free Disability Smart Image Bank, a Knowledge Hub full of resources, expert advice from a Business Partner, events and more. Find out more about membership: ow.ly/ayfB50RoXQA
#DisabilitySmart #DisabilityInclusion
Congratulations to the winners at the Business Disability Forum awards, including Bloomberg for partnering & hosting the celebrations. We were proud to sponsor the Department for Work and Pensions Disability Confident Awards for Impact, Small Business, and Mental Health & Wellbeing, presented by Mims Davies MP.
The Scottish Sensory Ctr Centre and the Royal Society were delighted to be awarded Highly commended in the Business Disability Forum Inclusive Communication Campaign Award, for developing new #BSL signs for environmental science! Congratulations to all involved! businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/awards-2024-wi…
The Disability Smart Awards Ceremony 2024 took place on Tuesday, co-hosted by Simon Minty and our CEO Diane Lightfoot. Thank you so much to our partner and host Bloomberg and to everyone who attended in-person or online.
And once again, huge congratulations to all our winners!
Eeek it’s time!!
I’m eagerly waiting to join the Business Disability Forum live stream to watch the award ceremony
My colleagues Steph & Lucy Mackcracken 💙 are there at Bloomberg in person with fingers crossed we’ve won our category
Good luck to all of the entrants and attendees 🤞🏻🤞🏻
Happy Tuesday!
For those of you who missed it, our CEO Claire Cookson won Leader of the Year at the Business Disability Forum awards!
Want to see disability inclusion in practice? Read our case studies of the #DisabilitySmartAwards2024 winners to find out how they built their disability inclusion initiatives, what their impact was, and how their entry impressed our judges: ow.ly/nRB650RFq8a
At our meeting tomorrow, we'll be focussing on employers and the support they need to make workplaces and recruitment practices more inclusive.
We’ll hear from:
👉Inclusion Scotland
👉FSB Scotland
👉Business Disability Forum
👉Fraser of Allander Institute
Live from 9.30 am ow.ly/IMHh50RyGwP
Blick Rothenberg joins the Business Disability Forum
We are delighted to announce that as of 1 December 2023, Blick Rothenberg became a member of the BusinessDisability Forum Business Disability Forum .
The BDF is the leading business membership organisation in disability inclusion,
How do you fund IT accessibility within your business? Access our free resource to find out the different types of activity that need to be funded, and how to identify and manage your budgets.
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#BDFTechTaskforce #A11y #Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology
We are delighted that Mitie is joining us as Member! We look forward to working with them to achieve their goals in disability inclusion.
Find out more about BDF membership: ow.ly/OOh550RmhvC
#DisabilitySmart #DisabilityInclusion #NewMember
