Liz Sayce attends Disability Employment Conference

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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