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The process

How does the Disability Standard work?

1. You can self assess how you are doing on disability in 10 areas:

Commitment.
Know-how.
Adjustments.
Recruitment.
Retention.
Products and services.
Suppliers and partners.
Communication.
Premises.
Information and communication technology (ICT).

You can self assess how different business units are doing in one area, or in all 10 areas, and print off your own report. We have devised a simple scoring system, which is explained further in the support section.

Each organisation will be allocated one super-user who will have overall control of your submission. Gold partners can request additional assessments with different super-users.

Your super-user can ask other people in your organisation to do parts of the self assessment. The website has been designed to send an automatic email to a colleague notifying them about which section to complete.

Find out more about the self assessment.

2. Decide whether you want to have an EFD evaluation

Why have an evaluation?

You may wish to check your self assessment is accurate.
You may wish to receive advice and guidance from us on your ‘weak’ areas.
You may want to share your good work with the world. You can’t do this without us double checking that you really are good!
To benchmark your performance against UK plc, or against others in your sector.
To have evidence of your weak and strong areas as an organisation, so you can develop an action plan.

Find out more about an EFD evaulation.

3. Decide when you want your EFD evaluation, and check our EFD evaluation availability to book it.

4. You will have to submit your assessment for EFD Evaluation by the mutually agreed deadline.

5. EFD's evaluation team will carry out a comprehensive review of your assessment, looking at your submitted evidence . We will decide whether we agree with your self assessed score. If we don’t, we will explain why. You will also receive comments (a bit like a school report).

6. A month later, you will receive you EFD evaluation report. You will be told if you have achieved:

Gold (90% or more)
Silver (80% or more)
Bronze (70% or more)
Participant status.

You will receive a Disability Standard logo acknowledging the above, which can be used from this point on.

7. You will have a personal debriefing over the phone or at our offices (all members), or at your offices (gold partners only).

8. Your results will also be entered into our database, and in September 2012 we will release the EFD benchmark and you will be informed how you have done against UK plc.

9. If you are in the top 15, in July/August 2012, we will be looking again at those organisations to ascertain who should be in the Disability Standard top 10.

10. We will announce the full benchmark results in September 2012 and will also decide who will qualify for an EFD award.