'Expensive to get wrong' | Seven in ten employers falling short on disability and neurodiversity training

Seven in ten UK employers (71%) have failed to train either their managers on disability discrimination or their staff on neurodiversity, according to a new poll.

According to findings from compliance eLearning provider, VinciWorks, more than a third (35%) have trained neither group at all. Looking at the two areas separately, around half of employers (50%) have not trained managers on disability discrimination, and more than half (57%) have given staff no training on neurodiversity whatsoever.

Managers are usually the ones making real-time decisions on reasonable adjustments, recruitment and sickness absence, so an untrained manager is often the point at which a routine workplace decision turns into a discrimination claim.