Grant Thornton LLP’s Valuable 500 Commitment:
At Grant Thornton we are committed to providing opportunities for our people to be themselves and to fulfil their potential at work. Our ambition is that we are fully inclusive every day. This means that our working environment is one where everyone’s experience is important. We want our people to feel comfortable sharing any conditions or challenges they face, feeling confident that they will be supported and included.
We have committed to the following:
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Ensure that our people are comfortable to disclose their needs by providing technological support flexibility and focused people manager support.
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Implement people manager training focused on improving confidence in managing people with disabilities or caring responsibilities and create a coaching buddy system for people managers to share best practice.
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Increase recruitment of people with disabilities by working with specialist partners.
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Expand our reverse mentoring programme to give leaders specific insight into disability and the workplace.
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Improve our internal processes and data collection to allow us to better support people with disabilities.
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Embed Disability Confident Level 2 with a plan to progress to Disability Confident Level 3 in 2022
