Openwork Partnership commits to diversity, wellbeing and inclusivity through action group

Achieves Government’s Disability Confident Status

Hemma Visavadia
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The Openwork Partnership has developed an Inclusion Action Group (IAG) to drive Diversity, Wellbeing, and Inclusion (DW&I) best practice across its network.

As part of its DW&I movement, the network recently achieved the Government's Disability Confident Status as an employer. The Disability Confident Employer status ensures that employers challenge attitudes towards disability, increase their overall understanding of disability and actively try to remove barriers disabled people and those with long-term health conditions may face. Peter Hamilton, Government disability and access ambassador for the insurance sector, said: "The Openwork Partnership has taken this important step in becoming a Disability Confident employer - the very act of ...

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