Featured articles
Every month, we put together an article that focuses on how businesses can become disability confident, how disabilty affects business, or how disabled people can be affected by existing employment laws. All articles can be accessed using the Featured articles menu, but for your convenience we provide links to the last five articles we have produced.
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Carers
Carers are becoming increasingly important in the modern workplace. A carer is defined as someone who looks after a disabled or chronically sick person in their family. There is evidence from employers that giving support and flexibility to existing employees who have caring responsibilities is not only the right thing to do, it brings tangible business benefits as well.
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Employing people with learning disabilities
Learning disabilities are a broad variety of conditions such as Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, which can range from the mild to the quite severe.
Continue reading the Employing people with learning disabilities article
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Disabled graduates and Disability Confidence among business
In 2005 there were 188,775 full-time first degree graduates from UK universities.
Every year the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) runs a survey among these first degree graduates, six months after they have left university, to see what they are doing – their 'first destination'.
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Small and medium-sized enterprises
There are 4.3 million small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. This accounts for 99% of UK business.
Continue reading the Small and medium-sized enterprises article.
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Poverty
A recent report commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that disabled people are far more likely to live in poverty than non-disabled people.