Sopra Steria Recruitment Partners with Business Disability Forum

Sopra Steria Recruitment, one of the UK’s leading staffing companies and managed recruitment service providers, is delighted to announce that it is now a Partner of Business Disability Forum (BDF). This latest move is part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to barrier-free recruitment.

BDF’s Partner Group is made up of organisations from the private and public sectors and represents a variety of industries; from investment banks to broadcasters, to government agencies and supermarkets. Its Partners are vital to ensuring employers and service providers forge productive relationships with disabled and non-disabled stakeholders.

Being a Partner of BDF highlights a commitment to becoming a disability-smart business and helps organisations to develop and share emerging best practice. BDF partner firms become part of the UK's foremost thought leadership group on disability as it affects business.

Pete Holliday, Managing Director, Sopra Steria Recruitment, commented: “We are delighted to be taking our relationship with BDF to the next level by joining the organisation as a Partner. Sopra Steria Recruitment is fully committed to barrier free and inclusive recruitment practices - for us it’s business as usual and embedded within our whole corporate culture. Since 2015 we have worked closely with BDF and our people have been trained by the organisation. However, we cannot escape the fact that disabled individuals continue to be hugely underrepresented in the workforce and by forging an even closer link with BDF we can take a greater role in helping to turn the dial on disability inclusion.”

Diane Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer at Business Disability Forum, said: “Sopra Steria Recruitment are doing a great deal to make their industry an enabler of disabled people, and it is a great pleasure to be working more closely with them.

“Recruitment companies clearly have a vital role to play in helping business to close the disability employment gap and we are delighted that Sopra Steria is committed to leading this agenda.

“The company has already supported our Recruitment Charter, a set of key tenets of accessible recruitment for businesses to follow and earlier this year, they played a major part in supporting our President's Group Dinner and making a powerful call to action to leading businesses in the room.

“We very much look forward to doing even more with Sopra Steria Recruitment to build businesses, recruiters and workplaces where disabled people do not face barriers.”

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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 @SopraSteriaRec

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