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Disability confidence - your business case

We make it easier for your organisation to build a businesscase for disability confidence.

A disability confident company:

  • understands how disability affects every aspect of its business - people, markets, communities, suppliers and key stakeholders.
  • creates a culture of inclusion and removes barriers for groups of disabled people.
  • makes adjustments that enable specific individuals to contribute - as employees, customers, partners and valued stakeholders.
  • does not make assumptions about what people can do on the basis of a label.

Many businesses assume that accommodating disabled people is a costly exercise; in fact it is quite the opposite. Anticipating the needs of disabled people by developing a business case for disability confidence will see gains across your organisation. By building a business case, your organisation will profit from an ageing population, the needs of the individual, changing working patterns and enabling technology. You will also become a better employer or service provider and reduce your organisation's risk of litigation under the Disability Discrimination Act.