Disability Confident is a Government scheme that is about encouraging long-term behavioural change and making the business case for employing disabled people and ensuring that they have the opportunities to fulfil their potential.
Government feels that through this scheme it will be giving employers the tools and techniques to help them recruit and retain more disabled people. The aim is that it becomes an important contributor to the Government’s commitment to see ONE million more disabled people in work by 2027.
Sarah Newton – Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work
Over 7,500 employers are already signed up to DISABILITY CONFIDENT, including all the main Government Departments, and this number increases every week.
And now, the 29 FTSE* companies that HAVE signed up!
ADMIRAL GROUP, AVIVA, BARCLAYS, BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS, BRITISH LAND, BT GROUP, CENTRICA, COMPASS GROUP, DIAGEO, DIRECT LINE GROUP, GLAXOSMITHKLINE, HSBC, ITV, LLOYDS BANKING GROUP, LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARKS & SPENCER, MORRISON’S, NATIONAL GRID, OCADO, PEARSON, ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, SAGE GROUP, J SAINSBURY, SEVERN TRENT, SKY, STANDARD CHARTERED, ST. JAMES’S PLACE, TESCO, UNITED UTILITIES.
But of course that means that 71 HAVEN’T signed up – SO WATCH THIS SPACE!
* The FTSE (pronounced footsie) was created in 1995 and originally stood for ‘Financial Times Stock Exchange’. The FTSE 100 is for the biggest 100 firms on market capitalisation. This is the number of shares x their price and includes multi-nationals as well as British Companies.