Our campaign on promoting employment for those with disabilities

1. Our campaign on promoting employment for those with disabilities By Natasha Noori, Emma Medland, Jess Pearce and Erica Nidhiry

2. Scope supports over 30,000 disabled people each year through its services. The money raised through scopes charity shops helps to fund this work. • Scope believe it is important disabled people are at the heart of what we do. Scope have a large number of disabled volunteers supporting our work. • This is one of our main contributors to society when it comes to allowing disabled people to work in there shop.

3. Why are Scope a good example and why your company should hire disabled people • Scope are keen to make the number of people who are disabled working and employed, also whatever your role at Scope, your contribution helps scope make England and Wales a better place for disabled people! Just because they are disabled doesn’t mean they can’t do things. You wont only get more employees but they will be promoting disabled people to buy things from your shop. But only if you make them accessible for them e.g. wider aisles.

4. Companies that do not and do hire disabled people • Do’s • Co-Op • John Lewis • Marks and Spencers • As you can see that high branded clothes lines do not except disabled employees! • Do not’s • Hollister • Jack Wills • Abercrombie & Fitch • Wallis • Superdry • Schuh • And many more... • As you can see that high branded clothes lines do not except disabled employees! Would it damage your image?

5. Why Hollister is bad and who to • Hollister is a bad company for those who are disabled because they only employ models who are a particular height and weight which creates there image of a perfect body. Also Hollister's shops are dark and have a small amount of lighting in only a few areas, this is a hazard to those who are both able and not able. The walk ways are very small and narrow fitting at most 2 slim figures at once, this is impossible for people in wheelchairs to access the shop because the wheelchairs are big and no very moveable.

6. Why modelling can change peoples opinions! • Modelling disabled people would be a new start and could influence people to not be ashamed of their body, as well as that modelling will show clothes brands that people that have less body parts than others can still be stunning and a professional model.

7. Disabled people that model • Four of these women took part in a women's modelling competition that only disabled people could take part in called ‘Britain’s missing top model’. Out of the eight ladies that took part were women without limbs, some who are partially paralysed and one who is deaf; They show you don’t need to be able-bodied to be beautiful!

8. Conclusion • Disabled people are still people! They have all the right to work • Hiring the disabled should not be thought of any differently as to hiring an abled bodied person • Yes, you may need to alter some aspects of the workplace to attend to your employees needs • No, you shouldn’t use that as an excuse to not hire them! • They could provide exactly the right workmanship needed at your company, why not give them a chance?