A wide range of useful factsheets covering topics from recruiting and retaining disabled people to advice around specific impairments such as 'Communicating with Deaf People' or 'Mental Health in the Workplace'.
Information about Disability Equals Business (who have produced this guide) plus links to Disability Equals Business's partners - many of whom can support your business with recruiting and retaining disabled people.
Useful links to organisations who can support your business with disability and diversity matters.
Find out more about the Sussex Disability Employment Directory - a searchable directory of local organisations which can help both employer and employee find answers to disability employment matters.
Running a small or medium sized business usually means you are short on time, so this website concentrates on the most important things you need to know about employing disabled people, and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), as amended.
This guide highlights your responsibilities and provides examples of how easy it is to make changes in line with the DDA - changes that could be beneficial to you and your business.
You can access more detailed information about many of the issues covered in this guide from the Fact sheet section. You can also find details of organisations that can support your business with disability and diversity matters on the Links Page, the About DEB & DEB Partners Page, and from the searchable directory of relevant local organisations linked to on the Disability Directory Page.
The DDA is a law designed to end discrimination against disabled people. It also meets the needs of small to medium sized businesses because it is flexible enough to take account of each business's individual circumstances.
If you have disabled employees, they may be able to help you make your business more accessible and help develop ways in which you can increase sales to disabled people. It's worth remembering that the combined purchasing power of disabled people in the UK is estimated to be in excess of £50 billion per annum. Treating disabled people fairly is not just legally and ethically correct, it also makes good business sense.
What the law requires you to do is mostly common sense. This website contains information on:
Download a PDF of the Sussex Guide to Disability here
