Welcome to Employers' Forum on Disability

Employers' Forum on Disability is the world's leading employers' organisation focused on disability as it affects business. Our mission is to enable companies to become disability confident by making it easier to recruit and retain disabled employees and to serve disabled customers.

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Disability Standard: tell us what you think

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EFD's Disability Standard is the only business-led benchmark that measures an organisation’s performance on every aspect of disability as it affects business. If your organisation is a member of EFD or a previous Disability Standard participant, please spare a few minutes and tell us how we can improve our assessment tool by filling in our online survey. You can be anonymous.

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Business leaders call for accessible technology

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Senior business leaders have joined forces in a unique taskforce launched by Employers' Forum on Disability. The Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology is calling for technology to deliver its promise of making it easier to employ, and do business with, disabled people.

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Non-visible disabilities: Line manager guide

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Many people associate disability with visible, physical conditions and impairments. Yet many disabilities are not immediately apparent. For example, 10 million people are covered by the Disability Discrimination Act, but fewer than 5,000 blind and partially sighted people own guide dogs. It can be difficult for employers to know what non-visible disabilities are.

 

Find out more about this new line manager guide

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EFD's members are part of a unique network of organisations that share best practice on disability.

We work with our members to help them make the business case for disability and become more disability confident with practical and expert advice.

    Member benefits include access to training, events, publications and our information service Disability Directions.

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    "As an organisation dedicated to providing worry-free motoring to disabled people, we want to ensure our customers receive the best service from confident and motivated employees. We are delighted to be working with Employers' Forum on Disability to help us achieve this, as well as support our recruitment practices."

    Mike Betts, CEO Motability Operations

    Photograph of Mike Betts