Afterhours: Disability and diversity
6th March 2008, 6:00pm - 8:30pm, London Past event
Sponsored by
UBS
EFD Afterhours is a new addition to the events programme for 2007/08 and a format unique to EFD. Each Afterhours event brings EFD members together in an informal environment to share knowledge and experience on a topical theme. The events are free to attend and include guest speakers - the UK's leading disability experts - who will create debate and challenge perceptions of disability.
Afterhours will take you out of the office environment to inspire fresh thinking and new ideas on disability. Each event takes place at the Museum of Garden History, an unusual venue, just across the river from Westminster.
Refreshments will be available throughout the evening and we create a setting to make it easy for you to network with other EFD members and share best practice.
This Afterhours event is sponsored by UBS.
Disability equality requires employers to take specific disability related actions, but does the concept of ‘diversity' make it more difficult to ensure disabled people are treated fairly as employees and customers?
Two years on from the first Employers' Forum Disability Standard, the results from this year's Benchmark Survey show that disability is still seen as less of a priority than race and gender. Some organisations do less and spend less on disability compared with their investment in other areas of diversity.
The Disability Standard also shows that disability is still largely ‘owned' by human resources and facilities management, setting action plans and allocating resources in these departments.
Why attend?
The aim of this event is to debate why disability still sometimes lags behind other strands of diversity such as race and gender. We will bring together a balanced representation of organisations from different backgrounds and diversity strands to look at how diversity is being embedded into business plans and strategies.
Who should attend?
All levels of management from HR, diversity and equality departments.
Testimonial
Paul Zickel, chair of the Civil Service Disability Network. Attendee at EFD Afterhours disabled staff networks event."Employers' Forum on Disability has such a rich diversity of organisations present here and the interesting thing is that all the problems with disability best practice are universal and diverse. All these organisations are fundamentally dealing with the same thing and that is what I find so energising about it. People have been speaking passionately tonight. The will is there!"
