Learning Directly From Disabled People 6 th December 2016 Kindly - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Welcome to the webinar Susan Scott-Parker OBE CEO business disability international Kate Nash OBE Founder of PurpleSpace Author, ‘Learning Directly From Disabled People’

Communicating our Leadership Enabling citizenship, rationale for respect and becoming Disability economic inclusion Confident The bdi Charter Becoming an Liberating the sets out a clear exemplar potential of employer technology strategic agenda Fundamentals of Disability which enables Confidence any global Encouraging our Creating a truly key suppliers to accessible built business to become Disability environment Confident worldwide identify priority areas for action Building universal Moving beyond the design and and start their expectations of accessibility into new disabled and older journey towards product customers development global disability confidence Learning directly from disabled people

Workforce 1 in 3 Profile are disabled (Illustrated using or are close to someone who is UK disability statistics) 12.5% 10% of employees in the of the UK population private sector have a has dyslexia disability 33,000 could be disabled or be close to someone 12,500 who is 10,000 could have a disability may have dyslexia 25,000 Workforce 3 million could experience 1 in 4 a mental health 100,000 employees combine condition 8,000 UK employees in one year unpaid caring experience mental employees may have caring responsibilities with health conditions in a responsibilities paid work year (8% UK workforce) 60,000 could be more 9,750 productive may become disabled after the 2,000 age of 16 colleagues could become disabled each 78% year 62% of disabled people of all computer users acquire their impairment would be more aged 16 or older productive using existing accessible software features 2% of the working age population become disabled each year www.businessdisabilityinternational.org

Creating sea-change Understanding the universal truth in social and business transformation Nothing about us without us ‘Riddling’ the system Taking (calculated) risks

Making it real: some practical hints and tips Employee Resource Groups Surveys Listening groups ‘Mystery shopping’

Case study Paulette Cohen Director, Diversity & Inclusion, Group HR Barclays

It’s not difficult once you start – you just need to start…..

Questions?

Got a case study you’d like to share? We’d love to hear from you! info@businessdisabilityinternational.org