de Poel, the leading independent and vendor neutral partner of choice for non-permanent staffing solutions, today announces that it will be partnering with and exhibiting at the Disability Employment Conference on 18th July in London.
The conference is part of the government’s campaign to create partnerships to help employers become disability confident, thus improving their business, workplace and customer service – whilst enhancing employment prospects for disabled people in the UK.
The conference is being hosted by Esther McVey, the Minister for Disabled People, with speeches from Iain Duncan Smith, MP and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Vince Cable, MP and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
de Poel is incredibly passionate about helping employers realise the benefits of having a diverse workforce. In 2010, Matthew Sanders CEO founded Placeability, an organisation dedicated to helping disabled people, the long-term unemployed and people with learning difficulties to find temporary and permanent employment. Partnering nationally with leading Welfare to Work providers, Placeability offers on-going training and development for the worker, to helping to nurture and retain a talented and diverse workforce.
At the Disability Employment Conference de Poel and Placeability will be demonstrating that as a business they recognise and celebrate the skills and talents that disabled people bring to an organisation and how they work with business to remove barriers to employing disabled people to have a more inclusive and diverse workforce.
Matthew Sanders, CEO of de Poel and Placeability comments: “We are thrilled to be taking such an active participation in the Disability Employment Conference. Through the collaborative partnership between de Poel and Placeability, employers are increasingly recognising the success that delivering a diverse workplace can have.
“But there is still a long way to go. To address disabled people’s barriers to work we need to work harder to educate employers. Employing a disabled person shouldn’t be thought of along the lines of ticking a CSR box. Creating greater inclusion and equality in the workforce is a win, win for all involved.”