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Jan 15, 2025 | 
workplacewellbeing.pro | Diane Lightfoot
January is a time for taking stock and thinking about goals for the year ahead. But considering our goals and achieving them are two very different things. We can quickly drift away from our good intentions if they are not backed up by purposeful actions. Just getting started can be the biggest barrier, particularly if the task ahead of us seems daunting and outside our comfort zones. This can be the case with disability inclusion goals.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
reba.global | Diane Lightfoot
Diane Lightfoot, chief executive at the Business Disability Forum, outlines why covering broader health and wellbeing issues is more effective than focussing on a single condition. In a lot organisations, managers don’t fully understand all the different health and wellbeing polices, so they don’t know where to go.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
hrmagazine.co.uk | Diane Lightfoot
The UK has long needed a strategic and holistic approach to creating an inclusive labour market, one which makes businesses productive and positions the UK as an economic leader on the world stage. The difficulty for employers and HR teams is that they are often left trying to piece together policies that have come out at different times from different policy areas, often with competing agendas. Read more: When will we get serious about attracting disabled talent?
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Grace Wood |Diane Lightfoot |Alasdair Field
People with epilepsy have one of the lowest rates of employment among disabled people. According to the Office for National Statistics, only 34 per cent of people who identify epilepsy as their main health condition are in work. Disabled people are more than twice as likely as non-disabled people to be out of work.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
pioneerspost.com | Estelle Uba |Diane Lightfoot |Anna Patton
MY IMPACT CAREER: The founder and CEO of award-winning social enterprise Gift Wellness shares how she transformed her grief from losing a child into the “currency of love”, becoming a leader in the fight against period poverty. Transforming the pain of losing a loved one into positive action is something that not everyone is able to do.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
thehrdirector.com | Diane Lightfoot
10Responding to the publication of the Government’s Disability Action Plan (5 February) Diane Lightfoot, CEO of Business Disability Forum, said:“We welcome the publication of the Disability Action Plan and many of the proposals set out within it. We are particularly pleased to see the mention of our “Technology for Life” concept which we believe could transform opportunities for disabled people throughout their lives.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
peoplemanagement.co.uk | Diane Lightfoot
Line managers often do not feel comfortable talking about disability and this makes it harder for disabled people to get the support they need to do their jobs. The UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December is an opportunity for us to try and challenge some of the misconceptions that still exist around disability and, in doing so, create workplaces that work better for both employers and employees.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
britsafe.org | Diane Lightfoot |Alasdair Field
How we measure disability inclusion in our workplaces continues to be a subject of much debate. Whether the driver is culture change or regulatory reporting requirements, data monitoring is often seen as the answer. But at Business Disability Forum we believe that numbers are just part of the picture and not an end in themselves. In this article, we look at actions all employers can take to make workplace inclusion an everyday experience. Diane Lightfoot, CEO, Business Disability Forum.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | Mike Robinson FCA |Lauren Chiren |Diane Lightfoot
A landslide more than two weeks earlier had caused part of the Silkyara-Barkot tunnel, in Uttarakhand, to collapse and block their exit. For 17 long days, food and water were passed through small pipes to reach the trapped miners, which kept them alive – but it is hard to imagine what they went through. One of the rescued miners said, “We were really scared, every moment felt that death was standing nearby”.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
pioneerspost.com | Estelle Uba |Diane Lightfoot |Anna Patton
Dr Kush Kanodia will be speaking at our SE100 Social Business Coffee Break webinar on 5 December 2023 on ‘how to champion disability in your social enterprise’. Book your free place now. Diagnosed with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, a rare genetic condition, as a child, Kush Kanodia grew up in constant agony. His hips would dislocate regularly, at any point in time, from standing up from a chair to walking to school.
