Sopra Steria Recruitment to sponsor key Business Disability Forum event

London, 1 February 2018: Sopra Steria Recruitment, one of the leading UK staffing companies and managed recruitment service providers, is delighted to announce that it will be continuing its close relationship with Business Disability Forum (BDF) by sponsoring this year’s President’s Group Dinner.

The event, which will be held on the 8th of February at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, brings members of BDF’s President’s Group together to identify and discuss the strategic challenges and opportunities associated with becoming a Disability-smart employer.

Sopra Steria Recruitment currently works closely with the Business Disability Forum on a number of initiatives as part of its commitment to promoting best practice in barrier free recruitment: its teams all undertake regular training with the organisation, the business is a sponsor of BDF’s Recruitment Service Provider Charter and it worked closely with BDF and recruitment trade body APSCo to develop a Best Practice Disability-smart Guide for employers.

Pete Holliday, Managing Director, Sopra Steria Recruitment, comments:

“Sopra Steria Recruitment is fully committed to barrier free and inclusive recruitment practices - for us it’s business as usual and embedded with our whole organisational approach. However, the sad fact is that disabled individuals continue to remain hugely underrepresented in the workforce, and we must continue to work together to ensure that we find a way to change this. Events such as this provide a platform where we can share ideas and forge solutions and we are honoured to be in a position to support this very worthy cause.”

Diane Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer at Business Disability Forum, said:

“We are delighted to continue working closely with Sopra Steria Recruitment, who since they started working with us in 2015 have taken some very solid steps to achieve excellence in the field of disability-smart recruitment. This is one of our biggest events of the year and Sopra Steria Recruitment’s support follows their sponsorship of the Recruitment Charter in 2016.”

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About Sopra Steria Recruitment

Sopra Steria Recruitment delivers recruitment services which help organisations in the public and private sectors attract people, knowledge and skills to enable business performance and accelerate change. We provide a breadth of solutions, tailored to your specific needs, in permanent, contract, interim and managed recruitment, capable of providing people across all technical and business disciplines.

Sopra Steria Recruitment is committed to minimising its impact on the environment and is certified to the ISO 14001 standard. We deliver through world-class recruitment workflow and compliance processes, certified to the ISO 9001 standard and aligned to all relevant employment and recruitment legislation. We are long-term members and award winners of the Association of Professional Staffing Companies, providing you with an assurance of the highest quality delivery. Formed in 1979, Sopra Steria Recruitment is a wholly owned company within the Sopra Steria Group; European leader of digital transformation.

Find out more at www.soprasteriarecruitment.co.uk and follow us on Twitter @SteriaRecruit

About Business Disability Forum

Business Disability Forum represents around 300 organisations that employ 15% of the UK workforce. We have more than twenty-five years’ experience of equipping people with the expertise to create confident organisations by improving the understanding of disability in business, removing barriers and making adjustments for individuals.

For more information, contact Samuel Buckley, Press Officer, by phone on 020 7403 3020 or by emailing samuelb@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk.