Uneven progress

There is uneven progress among organisations achieving disability equality, the Employers’ Forum on Disability (EFD) has found.

Every two years, the EFD runs the Disability Standard, an employer-led benchmark that allows organisations to compare their performance on every aspect of disability as it affects the business — including the working environment, IT systems, outsourcing and procurement.

Key findings were that three in five boards or senior management teams regularly review progress on disability equality, but only 13% of organisations build responsibility for disability equality into managers’ performance goals. Just over a third (35%) of organisations use targeted initiatives to attract disabled candidates, while only one in 10 monitors the proportion of employees gaining promotion who declare they have a disability.