DECEMBER: Disability Month

December Month Focus

Disability brings a new perspective to creativity. Disability History Month runs every year, organising a series of events that focus on the path to equality and human rights for all disabled persons. This year, the organisers want to explore the links between the experience of disablement in a world where the barriers people with impairments face can be overwhelming.

The reason for the month of events is to highlight how people with every type and degree of impairment can creatively express themselves. In music, and in work, disabled persons face barriers to progress. We want to challenge that. Search our jobs database today.

Disability: Annmarie Ward - Capability Manager at HMRC

Following a ten-year career as a special needs teaching assistant, Annmarie Ward has been working as a civil servant with HMRC for the past four years. With multiple diagnosis’ including the chronic pain syndrome fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, Annmarie’s work life has been challenging. At HMRC there are numerous support groups and initiatives to help people with disabilities work in a comfortable environment. As standard, Annmarie has monthly wellness meetings but says her managers ask how she is every day and are quick to recognise when she needs to work less.

Disability Confident scheme

We’re celebrating this month as we share the belief that disability should be looked at through the lenses of ability, not limitation. We were recently awarded the highest level of government recognition for our leadership in attracting, recruiting, retaining and promoting persons with disabilities.

We hold level three status in the ‘Disability Confident’ scheme. This is a government programme that lets businesses talk to other businesses about their efforts to encourage quality employment for It uses simple activities and processes to have companies look at how they work and what they do, focusing on internal improvement and outward advocacy on disability issues. We take this commitment with us as we talk to people, and businesses, about equality and diversity in the workplace. Search our jobs database of inclusive employers today.

Positive action on disability

The scheme helps companies to move from simple audits to find improvements to their working practices, to self-assessment and consideration of how they practically support disabled people into work. The third level and highest level requires outside review of a company’s disability-confident working practices. Companies must also prove they are leading the way to educate others in good practice.

The Disability Confident scheme is part of a Government commitment to get one million more disabled people into work within the next ten years. It started in November 2016 and by 2018 there were 6,500employerssigned up. It replaces the Disability Symbol ‘Two Ticks’ scheme.

Jobs for persons with disabilities

We’re proud to be advocating for the ideas and principles of UK disability month. We’re always interested in ideas and situations that improve the situation of persons with disabilities - search your next job with us here. We work with disability-friendly businesses that have a proven track record when it comes to hiring disabled workers. When you search with us you can apply with the confidence that your application will be taken seriously. Search our jobs database today.

DISABILITY MONTH

DECEMBER

December Month Focus

December Month Highlights

Disability: Annmarie Ward - Capability Manager at HMRC

EMPLOYERS WITH DISABILITY INITIATIVES

Articles

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Disability Confident scheme