Poor performance on Disability Confident
Research on Disability Confident undertaken by disability@work is picked up by disability organisations and is reported by Disability News Service. Less than 80 private sector firms (0.5% of private sector firms excluding sole traders) achieved the top level...
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Lord Shinkwin seeks advice from disability@work on mandatory reporting on disability for organisations
A well-received Demos discussion paper by Lord Shinkwin and George Relph (2019) highlights the ongoing relative disadvantage experienced by disabled people 25 years after the DDA, both in comparison to non-disabled people and to progress and policy in relation to...
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Evidence to the Lord Holmes Review Opening up Public Appointments to Disabled People
There are 6,000 public appointments each year in the fields of education, health, prisons and cultural institutions. With incomplete data collection (disability status of 35 per cent of existing appointments in unknown) and an absence of consistent monitoring, the...
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Response to consultation on Social Value in Public Sector Procurement
This consultation proposes the inclusion of additional social value metrics to the tendering process on public projects. The disability@work submission (2019) authored by Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass welcomes the inclusion of a disability employment metric and make...
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Our response to Health is Everyone’s Business, a consultation on ill-health related job loss by the Work and Health Unit (WHU)
The disability@work submission (2019) to this second WHU consultation authored by Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass builds on the theme of data quality in relation to disability at the organisational level from their first submission. Organisational monitoring of...
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Our contribution to the Wales: A Fair Work Nation
With two submissions to this public consultation (2018), disability@work was pleased to see a focus on organisational reporting in the final report (Fair Work Wales 2019). In the first submission Melanie Jones and Victoria Wass propose the disability employment gap as...
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Kim Hoque delivers Arthur Priest memorial lecture
On 17 October, Kim Hoque delivered the annual Arthur Priest Memorial Lecture held jointly by the Manchester Industrial Relations Society and the CIPD. He began by discussing the labour market disadvantage experienced by disabled people, and then emphasised that the...
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Kim Hoque addresses NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partners event
The NHS is shining an increasing spotlight on the issue of the employment of disabled people, from the point of view of both increasing the number of disabled employees and also improving disabled employees’ experiences of work. A recent NHS Employers event in...
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Two Ticks research presented at Academy of Management Conference
Kim Hoque presented the research he has conducted recently with Nick Bacon and David Allen (Texas Christian University) on the Two Ticks ‘Positive About Disabled People’ standard in a very well-attended symposium entitled "Employer Branding and Images: Extending the...
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Disability@Work round table brings together leading academics with key government officials
Inclusive employers? Learning from evidence on government and employer action to increase disabled people’s opportunities at work On June 13th 2019, disability@work hosted a round table that brought together leading academics from around the world with senior...
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Two Ticks research presented in Cardiff and Washington D.C.
How successful was the UK Government’s Two Ticks ‘Positive About Disabled People’ scheme and what lessons can be learned for the successor ‘Disability Confident’ scheme? Nick Bacon, Kim Hoque and David Allen (Texas Christian University) have researched this matter...
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Defining disability with the GSS Harmonisation Team
How to improve data collection on disability? In March 2019 Melanie and Vicki hosted the Government Statistical Service Harmonisation Team from the Office for National Statistics to discuss improvements to data collection on disability. Current data collection...
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