• Key strategies that we need to see from Government including investing in a UK wide disability, health and employment strategy and the wider support and infrastructure to support it
• Key actions from business to create better experiences and opportunities for disabled people
• Changing the narrative – the role of Government and business in driving systemic cultural change.

• Supported Employment is a voluntary, evidence-based model of employment to support non-working disabled people who wish to work into well-matched employment
• Less widely explored are the lessons from Supported Employment for workplace practices and supports for disabled (and other) workers
• This talk with outline these broader possibilities and learnings from Supported Employment for including and supporting disabled workers in the workplace

• Changing attitudes towards disabled people at work and discussing how wrong perceptions and assumptions can affect the quality of work for disabled employees
• Looking at the social model of disability and how organisations can understand perceptions made by society can suppress the working lives of disabled employees
• Understand the importance of disability inclusion in working spaces and institutions

• Understand why digital accessibility is crucial for creating an inclusive online environment for people with disabilities
• Discover the latest advancements and emerging trends in digital accessibility creating inclusive digital experiences
• Gain insights for implementing inclusive digital practices within your organisation, making a positive impact on those disabled in the workforce
  
  
  

• Explore the current UK landscape around disability employment and highlight the evidence base
• Recognise the real-world challenges encountered by disabled and neurodivergent people accessing employment opportunities.
• Understand how to create workplaces that are inclusive for all

• Implement a positive, inclusive environment in the workplace to enable those with  non-apparent  disabilities to be open
• Create a support system for those who are neurodiverse in the workplace using appropriate communication channels
• Embrace a supportive community in the workplace to allow those with  non-apparent  disabilities to thrive personally and professionally

• Innovative approaches for fostering disability inclusion in healthcare staffing
• Creating a constructive platform for discussion into healthcare initiatives and career pathways for disabled employees to flourish in the healthcare sector
• Success stories and address how the NHS has created processes and strategies to create a supportive environment for all employee

Harjit K Bansal, Equality and Diversity Manager, Northeast London Foundation Trust

Paul Deemer, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, NHS Employers

Samantha Ming, Inclusion Manager, Barts Health NHS Trust 

*programme subject to change without notice