Introduction

Scope worked with disabled people and employers to understand the reasons behind the low retention rate.

54% of employers in our research said they had concerns over a disabled employee’s ability to do a job as well as a non-disabled employee.

These concerns would potentially stop them employing a disabled person. We need to change this.

Scope research

Scope conducted research with:

• 1,000 disabled adults about their time at work and why they left the workplace
• 4,000 disabled people about the attitudes they face and the effect it has on them

The research has highlighted common barriers disabled people experience in the workplace. These barriers are:

• attitudes and understanding
• challenges in adjustments process
• inflexible work contracts
• issues with sick pay system and return to work processes

This toolkit gives a summary of Scope’s employer recommendations with additional guidance. For the full report, which includes government recommendations, visit the main Scope website:

Disability retention report (Scope)

Recommendations for employers

The toolkit chapters give guidance on the following recommendations:

• Employers of 250 people or more to report on their disability workforce data
• All employers to set up reverse mentoring schemes
• Awareness campaigns explaining the reason for data collection and how data will be used
• Sign up to Scope’s workplace disability inclusion programme
• Sign up to the Governments Disability Confident scheme
• Adapt adjustment policies and procedures
• Explore options for more flexible working arrangements
• Introduce disability leave policy