Disability Employment Conference - Working Together
This conference aims to bring business and government together at the start of a two year campaign to create the partnerships to help all employers become disability confident.
The conference is co-hosted by the Minister for Disabled People, Esther McVey and Frank Gardner, BBC.
Speakers include:
- Ashok Vaswani CEO Barclays
- Sir Andrew Witty CEO Glaxo Smith Kline
- Secretary of State for Department for Work and Pensions RT Hon Iain Duncan Smith
- Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable
- Ruby McGregor Smith CEO MITIE
- Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, easyGroup
- David Abraham Channel 4
You can follow the conference on twitter using #disabilityconfident.
You can also view live streaming and live captioning at https://registration.livegroup.co.uk/webstream/Stream/
The DisabilityConfident YouTube channel, at www.youtube.com/DisabilityConfident, has films about the world of disability employment, including work some businesses are doing in this area.
We have a number of getting into work factsheets at disabilityrightsuk.org/how-we-can-help/benefits-information/factsheets/work-related-factsheets