Disability issues top the agenda as ACAS sets up new Forum

Disability issues top the agenda as ACAS sets up new Forum

LONDON, May 22, 2008/3mnewswire.org/ -- Acas, the employment relations service, today announced plans to establish its Disabled People's Involvement Forum, one of the first of its kind, to help ensure fairness and equality in Acas' work.

There are approximately ten million disabled adults in the UK. As part of the Disablity Equality Duty set by Government, Acas wants to involve disabled people in areas of their policies and decision-making to make sure the issues around disability are understood.

To do this, Acas are seeking six highly committed disabled individuals from a diverse range of perspectives and impairment groups to volunteer for this unique committee to act in an informal advisory role - for more information
visit http://www.acas.org.uk/involvementforum

Steve Williams, Head of Acas Equality Services said,
"Acas is committed to equality and diversity. Fair treatment is a moral and legal duty and it also makes good business sense. We recognise the need to involve the people directly affected. By asking disabled people to become a member of our forum, we want to make sure we get it right before we put things in place. We know how important it is to remove the barriers for disabled people to ensure fairness and equality. The forum will allow us to do this as well as help us meet our disability duty."

Chris Sherwood, Access and Diversity Manager at Scope said:
"Scope fully endorses Acas's programme to improve its engagement with
disabled people. We welcome this important opportunity to engage
disabled people to develop thinking around disability equality in the
workplace."

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