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Disability Online for CSR Practitioners

For the most up to date information and statistics on disability as a business priority visit www.realising-potential.org

In association with Accountability with the support of Cable & Wireless

Corporations are under increasing pressure to become more transparent and to be seen to treat people fairly - be they employees, customers or other stakeholders. However, too often disabled people are forgotten as organisations shape their thinking on corporate social responsibility.

The Global Inclusion Benchmark, launched by the Forum in 2002, reveals the extent to which leading companies address disability in their social reporting. In 2002 only 20% of a selection of the world's leading companies publicly demonstrated their commitment to disabled people. The 2003 Benchmark results, announced in October, revealed an increase to 32%.

Concerned by these findings the Forum, supported by Cable and Wireless, joined with AccountAbility to research and produce the factual briefings which would, for the first time, provide straightforward and business-focused guidance for companies and their advisers, on why and where to position disability as a business priority.

We began by asking AccountAbility which organisations the UK and global business community turn to for guidance regarding the emerging priorities for business. Organisations were selected whose websites are internationally recognised as key information resources for business. The Forum then produced a set of targeted briefings for CSR practitioners which our partners have now made available online.

Support was also given to our partners to help them make their websites accessible to people with disabilities.

Download the Disability Online summary report

The Online Briefings

Business briefings are available on

  • CSR & Disability: The Strategic Business Case
  • Disability: Some Facts
  • Companies in Action
  • Disability & Employment: Investing in Human Potential
  • Valuing Disabled Customers
  • Human Rights & Disability
  • Labour Standards & Disability
  • The Digital Divide & Disabled People

CSR Partners: Engaging on Disability

For further information, please contact:

Rhiannon Suter, CSR Research and Projects Manager, Employers' Forum on Disability
Tel: 020 7403 3020, rhiannon.suter@employers-forum.co.uk