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Conference: Disabled people - valued employees, customers & stakeholders in a changing world
Hosted by Clifford Chance
23rd June 2009, 10:30am - 4.30pm, London
- How do you ensure that disability remains a top priority and business issue during difficult economic times?
- How can current and future trends help you to address disability at a strategic level and engage your future disabled customers and stakeholders?
- How do you engage with disabled staff, encourage disclosure of disability and reduce stress and mental ill health for all during difficult economic times?
A proactive approach to disability will make your business more attractive to disabled service users and consumers. Disabled people have an estimated annual spending of £80 billion in the UK alone. In addition, being disability confident can significantly increase the productivity of your workforce.
Our annual conference will examine how your organisation can position itself to capitalise on current and future trends on disability, taking account of the economic climate.
A range of influential and inspirational speakers will examine and explore key social demographic, legislative and policy trends in relation to disabled people.
We will be:
- Reviewing the Equality Bill and any changes to the Disability Discrimination Act that employers must understand and anticipate, including how this will impact the Public Sector's Duty to Promote Disability Equality.
- Providing a panel discussion to debate how we make sure disability remains a strategic priority throughout a recession.
- Running a series of workshops on particular subjects chosen by EFD members offering practical advice and suggestions that can be implemented back at the office.
- Bringing together EFD member case studies, disability practitioners, government and strategic thinkers to give you the tools you need to create change on disability in your organisation.
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Why attend?
The conference will be chaired by Stephen Duckworth, EFD Associate and Director of Disability Matters Ltd.
Speakers include:
- Jonathan Shaw MP, Minister for Disabled People.
- Paul Flatters, Managing Partner, Trajectory.
- Ben Page, Chairman, Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute.
- Giles Long- 3 times Gold Paralympics medalist.
- Susan Scott Parker, Chief Executive, EFD.
- Bela Gor, Legal Director, EFD.
Workshops will include the following subjects:
- Engaging with your disabled staff.
- Encouraging disclosure of disability in your workplace.
- Managing stress and mental ill health.
- Disabled customers in a changing world.
Workshops will be delivered by EFD Associates and EFD staff:
- Phil Friend, Director, Minty & Friend and Chairman of RADAR.
- Simon Minty, Director, Minty & Friend.
- Kate Nash, Director, Kate Nash Associates.
- Rick Williams, Director, Freeney Williams Ltd.
- James Partridge, Chief Executive, Changing Faces Ltd.
- Brendan Roach, Disability Directons Adviser, EFD.
On receipt of your booking form we will send you a form for you to complete, detailing your first and second choices for the workshops.
Member inputs include:
- Kay Allen, Group Head of Social Policy and Inclusion, Royal Mail Group.
- Professor Michael O'Donnell, Chief Medical Officer, Unum.
- Imogen Clark, Partner, Clifford Chance.
- Caroline Waters, Director of People & Policy, BT.
- Laura King, Global People Partner, Clifford Chance.
- Alvin Kofi, Chair of the Home Office Disability Support Network.
- Ravi Chand, Head of Group Equality & Diversity, Home Office.
Who should attend?
We are encouraging all EFD members to attend the conference, including our key contacts. This conference will be particularly useful to HR professionals, Diversity and Disability Practitioners and policy makers.
If you are interested in exhibiting at the event, please contact linda.ditri@efd.org.uk for details.
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