New Scheme to Challenge Negative Attitudes Towards Disability in the Workplace
A host of Monmouthshire businesses have signed up to a new scheme aimed at getting more disabled people into work.
It follows an event in Chepstow on Friday 16th September which highlighted the importance of challenging negative attitudes to disability in the workplace and the benefits gained from employing disabled people.
Thirty businesses from around Monmouthshire, including Basepoint Chepstow Centre Manager Ian Mitchell, attended the free Disability Confident networking day at Marriott St Pierre Hotel and Country Club. Ian comments, 'It is important to ensure that positive attitudes exist towards disabled employees in business as there is a huge skills network out there that is currently not being utilised to its fullest potential. This scheme will certainly challenge perceptions and change current cultures and behavours.'
Monmouth MP David Davies, who organised the “reverse jobs fair” in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), said he was delighted over half have already pledged to become a Disability Confident committed employer.
Launched in 2013, the government-led scheme has three levels and encourages employers to attract, recruit and retain disabled talent.
Pictured left to right David Davies MP with 7/7 survivor Daniel Biddle, Nationwide Access Consultants Ltd, and Vidyut Mehta, Regulatory Affairs & Quality Manager, ROHA Simpsons UK Ltd