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Tag: disability confident
Mike Adams & Guests
29th June 2018
11:00am
‘I am so passionate about higher education for disabled people because it levels that playing field’ said Purple CEO, Mike Adams in his keynote speech to senior university academic staff at Wolverhampton University.
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Purple has taken its mission to change the conversation on disability global, presenting to businesses at Arab Health in Dubai. Arab Health is the leading... Continue reading
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Purple is pleased employers such as John Lewis, M&S and Hope&Story are leading on a retail sector campaign to support the retail sector to become Disability Confident, and recruit and retain more disabled people. There are over 4.5 million disabled people out of work. Finding great people in a tight labour market provides a real competitive advantage, and this overlooked talent pool is part of the answer.
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2017 has been the year Purple firmly put itself on the map. We are an organisation that works to transform the lives of disabled people. And the organisation that has made disability a business leadership issue.
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Last Friday the Premier League released its progress report on accessibility in stadiums. As I suspected, things have started to improve but we need to see progress accelerate at a much faster pace. There is also significant disparity between clubs, a bit like the current Premier League table!
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Many retailers are well aware of the importance of accessibility in terms of people’s physical needs – wheelchair ramps, lifts, etc. After all, it’s very hard for people with physical disabilities to do or buy very much without them!
UK business has a golden opportunity to access the £249bn annual disability market through the Government’s Disability Confident scheme, according to disability equality champion Mike... Continue reading
The Disability Confident Accreditation Scheme provides a real opportunity for businesses to demonstrate a concrete commitment to the recruitment and retention of disabled employees and, indirectly, the disability consumer market.
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