Networks Best Practice...Your Questions Answered - updated for 2018

Starting Out / Briefing Paper

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Whether you’re setting up a new Purple Network or your network has existed for a while, there will be a number of questions on your mind about what a truly effective network looks like.   We’ve put together a list of common questions with answers, for example:  Should the network or resource group leader and/or the Disability Champion or Executive Sponsor be disabled people themselves? If this guide doesn't answer your question, remember you can post it on the Member Zone.

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Starting Out / Briefing Paper


Disabled Employee Networks or Employee Resource Groups are all structured differently. In fact, there seems to be as many structures as there are networks/resource groups. This template role description may help you think though the range of tasks that might be involved, depending on which type of network you have.

Annual review checklist

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Whether your network is at the beginning of its journey or whether its thriving, it’s good business practice to review how your network is working at least once a year.  This might involve a questionnaire, a survey or face to face interviews with key members of the committee, your Champion and other key stakeholders.  External best practice has shown the best results from an annual review come

10 Steps to building #ourdisabilityconfi ..

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We hear a lot about organisations’ being disability confident, at an organisational level and many of the disabled employees we work with are employed by organisations who know how to build inclusive workplaces.
At PurpleSpace we also notice the need that individuals have to build inner confidence and resilience especially those people who are newly diagnosed with a health condition or

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