Evenbreak’s Best Practice Portal

Best Practice Portal

Involving Disabled People (video)

Involving the real experts on inclusion – disabled people themselves.

IT Accessibility; Standards, Governance and Education (video)

Graeme Whippy explores IT Accessibility

Making Assumptions (video)

How assumptions can be made in the workplace

Ensuring Policies are Inclusive (video)

It’s important to ensure that HR policies are inclusive

Social Model of Disability (video)

A discussion about the social model of disability

Workplace Adjustments – What is “Reasonable”? (video)

We talk about ‘reasonable adjustments’, but what is ‘reasonable’?

Workplace Adjustments Example – Visual Impairment (video)

An example of how job carving works for an employee with visual impairment

Tags: Visual Impairment

Workplace Adjustments – Framework (video)

Graeme Whippy talks about establishing a framework for workplace adjustments

Working For All? (Scope Research) (pdf)

Working for All? Scope conducted research on experiences of employment support amongst disabled people with high support needs. This is the report (March 2017)

Discrimination by Association – Case Law (text)

Discrimination by Association In May 2017 employers were reminded that The Equality Act 2010 is extended to those employees with caring responsibilities and reasonable adjustments should be put in place. Discrimination by association protects the individual from being discriminated against because of a third-party’s protected characteristic.

Adjustments at Recruitment – Case Law (text)

Adjustments at Recruitment Recently we have seen how important it is for recruitment assessments to take into consideration the disabilities of job applicants, and how a failure to make reasonable adjustments can put you at risk of a claim of indirect disability discrimination.

Tags: Autism, Neurodiversity

Discriminatory References (Case Law) (text)

Discriminatory References Employers have been advised to take extra care with references for ex-employees after a recent employment tribunal where a claimant believed he had been victimised and discriminated against because of his sickness absence.