'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. 

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The survey also revealed that two in five (43%) have not updated their whistleblowing policies and training since 6 April 2026, when sexual harassment disclosures became protected whistleblowing disclosures in their own right. One in ten (11%) either have no plans to update their policies or have no whistleblowing policy or training at all.

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Furthermore, the findings discovered that six in ten professionals (60%) are concerned that a clash between employees’ religious, political or philosophical beliefs could result in a discrimination claim against their organisation.