Collecting Disability Data June 2018
Stepping Up / Briefing Paper
Over the past 20 years, there’s been a growing appreciation that diversity in the workplace is a societal and business imperative. Today, it’s rare to find an employer who doesn’t want to understand the makeup of its workforce and then take steps to ensure that it is representative of the society in which it operates. And in some sectors, there is regulatory ‘encouragement’ on knowing the percentages and having targets.Employers are entering a third phase of building a sustainable culture for recruiting and developing disabled employees in the UK and globally. The first phase was about legislation. It was about understanding and embedding the disability-specific equalities legislation first secured in the UK in 1995 and now harmonised under the Equality Act 2010 – and that is the same for many countries.The second phase was about employers: the process by which they have become, and continue to become, disability confident organisations (often with the assistance of best
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