Toolkits - Useful Websites

General Advice

Disability Now
www.disabilitynow.org.uk
Newspaper covering a range of disability related issues and articles.

Employer's Forum on Disability
www.employers-forum.co.uk
Membership organisation of over 380 major employers who are committed to developing best practice on disability in the workplace.

Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
www.opportunities.org.uk
National charity helping disabled people to find and retain work. They also provide a wide range of support and advice to employers on disability and employment matters.

The Leadership Recruitment Programme (formerly known as Fast Track)
www.diversityworks.scope.org.uk
Provides an opportunity for disabled graduates to undertake management development training and work experience opportunities with major employers.

The Papworth Trust
www.papworth.org.uk/employment_great.shtml
The Papworth Employment Programme supports disabled people getting into and staying in both paid and unpaid work.

Ready Willing and Able
www.readywillingable.net
Recruitment bulletin aimed at disabled people.

Disability Matters
www.disabilitymatters.com
Promotes culture change to help employers maximise the potential of disabled people within their workforce and enhance the quality of services to disabled customers

Disability Rights Commission
www.drc-gb.org
Independent body set up by the Government to help secure civil rights for disabled people and advise on the working of disability legislation.

Health and Safety Executive
www.hse.gov.uk
Ensures that risk to people’s health and safety from work activities are properly controlled. Aims to ensure that employers fulfil their obligations to their employees, and that all employees look after their own health.

Department for Constitutional Affairs- Human Rights Unit
www.dca.gov.uk/hract
The Human Rights Unit’s main responsibility is to ensure the successful implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998

Shaw Trust
www.shaw-trust.org.uk
A charity that enables people with disabilities and mental health problems to maximise their potential in work opportunities. Provides vocational training, work tasters and work preparation. It also works in partnership with over 2,000 companies to support people with disabilities in employment.

SKILL:National Bureau for disabled students
www.skill.org.uk
Promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post-16 education, training and employment across the UK.
SKILL provides individual support to disabled people, their families/enablers or people working with disabled people by offering an information service by phone, Minicom or letter, publishing books, booklets and information leaflets.

Yourable.com
www.youreable.com
A world wide information and news service for all disabled people with an interest in disability issues.

Royal Association for Disability & Rehabilitation (RADAR)
www.radar.org.uk
Run by and working for people with disabilities – offer advice on employment and work related issues.

Help for Specific Disabilities

Arthritis

Arthritis Care
www.arthritiscare.org.uk

Autism

National Autism Society (Autism & Aspergers Syndrome)
www.nas.org.uk

Blind/Visual impairments

Royal National Institute for the Blind
www.rnib.org.uk

Association of Blind and Partially Sighted Teachers and Students
www.abapstas.org.uk

Action for Blind People
www.afbp.org.uk

Blind in Business
www.blindinbusiness.org.uk
Blind in Business helps visually impaired students and graduates to identify and achieve their ambitions and helps them into careers. It now runs an Employment Service for visually impaired graduates seeking their first job after university.

Cue and Review
www.cueandreview.org.uk
Cue & Review Recording Service provide a range of 22 different magazines and newspapers on audio tape free of charge to the visually and reading impaired.