Employers' Forum On Disability - Achievements

Achievements

Some of the former EFD’s major accomplishments 1986-2012 include:

• Engaging over 1,000 employers in improving their disability confidence,
• Mobilising leading UK corporations, alongside the disability movement, to actively support both the abolition of the 1944 UK Quota and the introduction of modern anti-discrimination legislation, the Disability Discrimination Act, in 1995.
• Through the Disability Standard, setting the corporate standard for performance on disability as it affects a business and defining what best practice on disability actually means with regard to recruitment, employment, customer care and stakeholder engagement more widely.
• Disseminating over 8 million best practice guides throughout the UK and internationally to raise awareness of disability as a business priority and to make it easier to deliver business improvement.
• Increasing the capacity of hundreds of organisations and thousands of managers to employ and retain disabled employees and to do business with disabled customers through its disability confidence related training and by building relationships between individual business leaders and individual disabled people.
• Creating a global advisory group of multinational partners now setting out to establish similar networks in other countries, starting with an emerging EFD in Spain.