Welcome to our hub of exclusive resources and inspiration to help our member organisations promote disability inclusion in the workplace.

Welcome to enei’s Disability Inclusion Hub
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Resources and information
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Blogs
- The Human Model of Ability – After welcoming newly appointed Sandi Wassmer as CEO in 2020, enei asked Sandi to write about her experience with disability.
- The Lived Experience of Discrimination: Speaking, Listening, and Doing Something About It – CEO Sandi Wassmer reminds us of the importance of giving voice to the lived experience of anyone who faces discrimination.
- Visibly Better Employer: RNIB Enhancing Workplace Inclusion for People with Sight Loss – Marie Clarkson from RNIB has written a guest blog that discusses the benefits of the Visibly Better Employer quality standard.
- Visit to Google Accessibility Discovery Centre (ADC), London – In this blog, former Diversity and Inclusion Manager Kali Bolawole describes her visit to Google’s Accessibility Discovery Centre (ADC) in London.
Case Studies
- North East Ambulance Service – Spotlight on North East Ambulance Service – Spotlight on Employee Network Group of the Year – The organisation addressed challenges for colleagues with disabilities by establishing the Able@NEAS disability network to support colleagues with disabilities encountered in the workplace.
- Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals – Spotlight on Employee Network Groups – Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals set up the Disability & Wellness Network (DAWN) to support disability and wellness throughout the organisation.
Employer Guides
- Disability and Employment – This guidance is designed to help you recognise areas of risk and find proactive policies for creating a working environment that reflects your organisation’s inclusive approach to employment.
- Equality Act 2010 – The Equality Act 2010 was introduced in England, Scotland, and Wales to simplify equality law in Great Britain.
- Hearing Loss and Deafness in the Workplace – This guide provides information and tips to help you be welcoming to—and inclusive of—the millions of working-age people in the UK who are deaf or have hearing impairments.
- Reasonable Adjustments in the Workplace
- Stammering – This guide aims to help you understand how employees may be affected by stammering.
Quick Guides
- Access to Work – This guide introduces Access to Work, a grant scheme that aims to help individuals with disabilities and mental health conditions secure and retain employment.
- Allyship – Disability – This guide provides practical strategies and resources to enhance allyship and disability workplace initiatives.
- Deaf Awareness Week – This quick guide explains the significance of Deaf Awareness Week.
- Deafblind Awareness Week – This quick guide includes some contextual information and an overview of the origins of this notable date.
- Disability – Attracting Disabled Talent – This guide aims to help you understand the importance of attracting disabled talent.
- Disability Confident – This guide summarises the Government’s Disability Confident initiative available through the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
- Disability Employment Gap – This guide explores the disability employment gap and provides practical guidance for employers who hope to address it in their workforce.
- Disability Language and Terminology – This guide aims to offer insight into the language and terminology that might be associated with different disabilities.
- Disability Pay Gap Reporting – This guide introduces disability pay gap reporting and provides practical guidance for employers who want to report on their disability pay gaps.
- Disability – Workplace Statistics – This guide presents an overview of statistics related to disability in the workplace.
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) – This guide introduces Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
- Health Adjustment Passports in the Workplace – This guide offers an introduction to Health Adjustment Passports (HAPs), which are tools for supporting employees with health conditions or disabilities in the workplace.
- Hearing Loss in the Workplace – Attraction and Recruitment – This quick guide explores the importance of attracting and recruiting individuals with hearing loss.
- Hearing Loss in the Workplace – Introduction – This quick guide introduces the subject of hearing loss in the workplace.
- Hearing Loss in the Workplace – Setting Employees Up for Success – This quick guide explores how to help employees with hearing loss thrive in the workplace.
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities – This guide introduced International Day of Persons with Disabilities while providing actionable steps for fostering inclusive workplaces for disabled people.
- International Guide Dog Day – This quick guide explains the significance of International Guide Dog Day.
- Invisible Disabilities Week – This resource offers guidance on how organisations can acknowledge this week, along with action items and useful resources.
- Memory Loss in the Workplace – Attraction and Recruitment – This guide looks at the potential benefits of employing people from this talent pool and offers actions employers can take to successfully recruit individuals with symptoms of memory loss.
- Memory Loss in the Workplace – Introduction – This quick guide introduces the subject of memory loss in the workplace.
- Memory Loss Symptoms in the Workplace – Setting Employees Up for Success – This guide suggests measures to put in place when someone with symptoms of memory loss joins an organisation or takes on a new role and looks at ways to accommodate employees who care for someone with symptoms of memory loss.
- National Disability Strategy 2021 – The government’s 2019 manifesto committed to publishing a National Disability Strategy to improve the everyday lives of disabled people.
- Physical Disabilities in the Workplace – Attraction and Recruitment – This guide provides examples of attraction and recruitment measures for inclusive employers and offers an overview of the possible impact of physical disabilities on applicants and candidates.
- Physical Disabilities in the Workplace – Introduction – This quick guide introduces physical disabilities in the workplace.
- Physical Disabilities in the Workplace – Setting Employees Up for Success – This guide looks at measures to put in place when someone joins an organisation or takes on a new role.
- Rare Disease Day – This quick guide explains the significance of Rare Disease Day.
- Reasonable Adjustments – Guidance for Managers – This guide looks at steps employers can take to create truly inclusive workplaces.
- Resources for Working with People with Sight Loss – This quick guide provides a range of resources from enei and the RNIB.
- Scottish Learning Disability Week – This guide introduces Scottish Learning Disability Week.
- Sight Loss in the Workplace – Attraction and Recruitment – This resource offers an overview of the possible impact of sight loss on applicants and candidates.
- Sight Loss in the Workplace – Introduction – This quick guide introduces the subject of sight loss in the workplace.
- Sight Loss in the Workplace – Setting Employees Up for Success – This guide examines how to get employees with sight loss off to a good start, whether new to the organisation or just the role, with customised pre-boarding and onboarding options.
- The Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023 – The purpose of this quick guide is to provide an overview of the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) Regulations 2023.
- UK Learning Disability Week – This quick guide explains the significance of UK Learning Disability Week.
- UK Disability History Month – This guide includes some contextual information along with an overview of the origins of this notable date.
- Using Notable Dates to Promote Diversity and Inclusion – This guide examines how organisations can use notable dates to promote an inclusive culture.
- World AIDS Day – This quick guide can help raise awareness about World AIDS Day across your organisation.
- World Alzheimer’s Month – This quick guide explains the significance of World Alzheimer’s Month.
- World Braille Day – This quick guide explains the significance of World Braille Day.
- World Cancer Day – This resource explores efforts to create one banner to unify the world in the fight against cancer.
- World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) – This quick guide explains the significance of World Down Syndrome Day.
Recordings
- Breaking Barriers: A Deafblind Perspective on Workplace Inclusion – During this session, Emma Boswell revealed her journey and offered invaluable insights for fostering workplace diversity and accessibility.
- Breaking Barriers: Advancing Careers for Disabled Talent – This event looked at how to break barriers and unlock the full potential of disabled employees through inclusive talent progression strategies.
- Creating Inclusive Workplaces: Supporting People with Sight Loss – Review this recording for some practical advice on how you can become a more inclusive employer and supportive colleague for people with sight loss.
- Cultivating Inclusion: The Disability Confident Roadmap – This session looked at the Disability Confident Scheme and its levels of commitment.
- Deaf Awareness: Reducing Barriers in the Workplace – This session provided an overview of hearing loss in the workplace.
- Disability and Carers: Roles Beyond the Workplace – In this insightful webinar, we discussed key principles for supporting carers in the workplace.
- Disability Awareness with Mik Scarlet – In this interview, Mik Scarlet discussed his experiences of living and working with a disability.
- Disability Inclusion: Is Your Organisation Disability Confident? – This session explored how the Disability Confident scheme helps employers recruit and retain great people.
- Finding The Right Words: An Introduction to Stammering – Find out from STAMMA and individuals with lived experience how they have busted some of the myths associated with stammering.
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day – In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), this session featured insights from digital accessibility expert James Hall from HeX and enei CEO Sandi Wassmer.
- How to Talk about Cancer at Work – This event provided attendees with insight into how to support people in the workplace who are living with cancer.
- Inclusive by Design: Navigating Non-Visible Disabilities – This event focused on the often overlooked experiences of employees with non-visible disabilities.
- Inclusive Workplaces: Navigating Dementia and Memory Loss – This session explored strategies to enhance support in the workplace for individuals impacted by dementia.
- Navigating Inclusivity: Workplace Disability Etiquette – Discover the fundamentals of disability etiquette to cultivate a workplace environment that values understanding and respect and promotes inclusivity for all.
Notable Dates
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month – Every October, people all over the world show their support for everyone affected by breast cancer.
- Deaf Awareness Week – The focus of the week is to raise awareness of deafness and hearing loss.
- Deafblind Awareness Week – This is celebrated at the end of June and honours Helen Keller’s June 27 birthday. Her groundbreaking work greatly improved life for those with sight and hearing loss.
- Disability Pride Month – Celebrated in July, Disability Pride Month is a time to highlight and celebrate the disability community and their pride.
- Down Syndrome Awareness Month – This is observed in October since the 1980s. It’s a time to celebrate individuals with Down syndrome and raise awareness of their abilities and accomplishments.
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) -GAAD is an awareness day focusing on digital access and inclusion for the more than one billion people with disabilities and impairments. It is marked annually on the third Thursday of May.
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities – Proclaimed by the UN in 1992, and celebrated on 3 December, this day promotes the rights and wellbeing of persons with disabilities and raises awareness across all areas of society.
- International Guide Dog Day – Celebrated on the last Wednesday in April each year, this day recognises the work of guide dogs and raises awareness of the important services they provide.
- International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD) – ISAD was introduced in the UK and Ireland in 1998. It takes place on 22 October every year.
- Invisible Disabilities Week – Founded in 2014 by the Invisible Disabilities Association, Invisible Disabilities Week raises global awareness of invisible disabilities and their impact. It occurs every third week in October.
- Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) International Awareness Day – Celebrated on 12 May annually, this day coincides with the birthday of Florence Nightingale who became chronically ill from a bacterial infection and was often bedridden later in life.
- National Day of Reflection – On this day, the country takes time to mark the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Rare Disease Day – Held annually on the last day in February, this day raises awareness for rare diseases and aspires to generate change for those seeking to improve their access to medical treatment.
- Scottish Learning Disability Week – Scottish Learning Disability Week is Scotland’s learning disability awareness raising week, which takes place in May every year.
- UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) – UKDHM runs from mid-November to mid-December and creates a platform to focus on the history of equality and human rights for members of the disabled community.
- UK Learning Disability Week – UK Learning Disability Week, celebrated in June, aims to raise awareness of the experiences of people with learning disabilities.
- World AIDS Day – Established in 1988, World AIDS Day is dedicated to awareness of AIDS and, HIV infection.
- World Alzheimer’s Day – World Alzheimer’s Day raises awareness of Alzheimer’s challenges and highlights ways to help those affected live fulfilling lives.
- World Alzheimer’s Month – World Alzheimer’s Month is a global opportunity to raise awareness, educate, encourage support of, and demystify Alzheimer’s disease.
- World Braille Day – Held annually on 4 January, World Braille Day commemorates the birth of Louis Braille.
- World Cancer Day – World Cancer Day takes place every year on 4 February with the purpose of uniting the world in the fight against cancer.
- World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD) – This has been officially observed on 21 March by the United Nations since 2012. All over the world, events are held to amplify the voices of people who have Down syndrome.
External Resources
This resource was updated in January 2025.