East Lothian DWP Disability Confident Event - Tuesday 24th October 2023
The Department for Work and Pensions
Would like to invite your organisation to our Disability Confident Employer Event
At
Musselburgh East Community Learning Centre
Haddington Road, East Lothian, EH21 8JJ
On
Tuesday 24th October, 2pm to 4pm
Keynote speech from Jeremy Balfour MSP for Lothians.
DWP Senior leadership Team introduction.
Disability Confident Explained.
Benefits of Access to Work for your business.
DWP Colleague given their journey with a health condition.
Enable Works explains their offer and employer support.
Capital City Partnership sharing their story on being a Disability Confident Leader in the Community
Closing Speech from DWP Senior Leadership Team.
Disabled people are a hugely diverse group of people, with amazing skills and experience.
Join disability confident at their FREE Disability Confident event to find out how disabled people can make a major contribution to the success of your business.
You’ll have the opportunity to hear from employment specialists about:
The Disability Confident scheme and how signing up can help your business.
The benefits of employing and retaining disabled people.
Access to Work how it can support employees with a health condition.
Around 20% of working age people in the UK have a disability or health condition
Over 20,000 businesses are already benefiting from being Disability Confident members and they would encourage your business to join them! Being Disability Confident is a great opportunity to lead the way in your community, and you might just discover someone that your business cannot do without. At the event you will be encouraged to sign up to the Disability Confident scheme along with the 1,000’s of UK businesses that have already done so.
If interested in attending, then please click on the Eventbrite link below to reserve your place.
Please email musselburgh.ea@dwp.gov.uk if you have any questions or interested in Disability Confident but unable to attend.
If you are unable to attend for the whole 2 hours, you are welcome to attend for the speeches and leave at that stage. The additional time has been allocated to enable attendees to chat and receive support from DWP staff.
It would be beneficial if the person who attends has the authority to sign up for the scheme. They will be providing full details to anyone who attends with instructions on how to register. They will also have someone to support you registering on the day.
Feel free to share the event with your contacts that may be interested in becoming Disability Confident and they are welcome to attend. If they are interested and cannot attend, please provide them this link to Register Disability Confident scheme. or get in touch with their local Job Centre Plus for more information on musselburgh.ea@dwp.gov.uk
